In article ,
enh wrote:
>(if anyone knows the equivalent freebsd list, please add them --- this
>code is the same between all three bsds.)
>
>Apple patched their copy of the FreeBSD fvwrite.c to change BUFSIZ to
>INT_MAX to massively improve the performance of large unbuffered
>writes[1], and
In article ,
enh wrote:
>this was found by fuzzing the LLVM __cxa_demangle on an ld128 Android
>system using hwasan, but it turns out no to simply be a buffer
>overflow --- the results are just wrong. (which shows how much anyone
>uses ld128 in conjunction with %a!)
Thanks a lot for the heads
The select(2) family of syscalls was designed to work this way (block when
file descriptors are not available, even when they cannot become available).
For example:
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
blocks forever.
In fact in the very old days (before usleep, nanosleep,
