Shibboleth Developers

[Derek Atkins <>]

We can add this to the 2.0 work-list, to change over from select() to
poll().

-derek

Scott Cantor 
<>
 writes:

> > The directory server was installed on 2/24/03.  
> 
> Thanks, that matched the date on the file. I'm assuming that you rebooted it
> at that point?
> 
> If so, I'm pretty much lost as to why we just now noticed the problem, since
> I've run the target on and off there for the last several months. Not often,
> but this bug is impossible to miss. ;-)
> 
> After thinking about it, it's clear to me that there's a problem with the
> sys/select.h header and the data types it defines if you raise the limit
> past 1024, *and* use a system call to determine the kernel parameter.
> Quoting the man page:
> 
> The poll(2) function is preferred  over  this  function.  It must  be  used
> when  the number of file descriptors exceeds FD_SETSIZE.
> 
> Pretty clear, I guess.
> 
> Anyway, there's no harm in having the lower number, since the directory
> there isn't going to be handling large numbers of connections, but I would
> guess that web servers tell sysadmins the same advice, and we'd kind of like
> Shib to work on web servers. ;-)
> 
> -- Scott
> 

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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