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From: s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Craig Macbride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: select() crashes Encores!
Message-ID: <1991May12.173540.7753@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 12 May 91 17:35:40 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: VUT(RMIT), Melbourne, Australia
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I have been doing some testing of select() calls on a number of machines,
since it has different effects under different circumstances on some boxes.
I have found that a simple select() from 2 named pipes on an Encore running
System V R2.4 causes the Encore to crash. None of the system calls needed to
set this up (open, select) return any errors, and one doesn't need to be root
for this to happen.

Exactly the same code compiles and runs without this effect on other machines
that I've tried. If anyone knows why this might be happening, I would be
interested to know.

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