Re: [MiNT] poll & mintlib

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 03/03/14 15:56, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 04:21 AM, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just bumped into a nasty bug in the mintlib.
> >
> > It turns out the new poll implementation in the kernel has exposed 
> > this bug.
> >
> > In the mintlib we had been executing poll(), but even on success, the 
> > code would fall
> > through to the older select code which is restricted to 32 file 
> > descriptors. Some odd
> > behaviour could have occurred because of this.
> >
> > So those folk who have been using a snapshot mintlib, should grab a 
> > fresh one tomorrow
> > and rebuild your applications to ensure correct operation.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alan.
> Do you mind bumping the version to 0.60.1 and setting a tag?  I'll 
> build a new RPM.  I just got done building 0.60.0 from cvs.    I'm 
> working on rebuilding sparemint for firebee.

Sure, but give me a few days to check more things out first.

Alan.