[erlang-patches] fix erl_interface crash

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

On 2011-10-26 12:05, Henrik Nord wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 10:14 AM, Wei Cao wrote:
>> Fix a crash in erl_interface.
>>
>> erl_interface use linux select() to get notified on socket events, 
>> which works when fd is less than 1024.
>>
>> however, when fd is larger than 1024, the fd_set structure on stack 
>> gets corrupted and the process crashes soon,
>>
>> this is possible when there are lots of connections kept or the 
>> process keeps creating new connect and closing it.
>>
>>
>> git fetch git://github.com/weicao/otp.git 
>> <http://github.com/weicao/otp.git> erl_interface_replace_select_
>> with_poll
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/weicao/otp/compare/erl_interface_replace_select_with_poll
>>
>> https://github.com/weicao/otp/compare/erl_interface_replace_select_with_poll.patch

Though poll would be nice here it isn't supported on all platforms. For 
this patch to be accepted a configure test needs to be done to determine 
if poll exists and have select as a fallback if doesn't.

// Björn-Egil

>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Wei Cao
>>
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> Hi
> 1. The commit msg is not conforming to the guidelines on how to write 
> a proper commit msg.
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/wiki/Writing-good-commit-messages
>
> 2. could you add tests for this?
>
>
> Thank you for the contribution!
>
>
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