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authormrkn <mrkn@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2011-08-19 04:17:04 +0000
committermrkn <mrkn@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2011-08-19 04:17:04 +0000
commit248d589b554331ed1cee9dfc29f1d6f79bff9312 (patch)
treea54d147920587d95054837bcbba7c0de64806a2b /thread.c
parent61f830bf7d184d5ee6423c152d9be4454f1769fa (diff)
* thread.c: add a description for the behavior of select(2) on
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@33005 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index 56077d83c5..6970d8f62b 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -2296,6 +2296,10 @@ rb_thread_priority_set(VALUE thread, VALUE prio)
* - HP-UX documents how to allocate fd_set dynamically.
* http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60105/select.2.html
* - Solaris 8 has select_large_fdset
+ * - Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
+ * select(2) returns EINVAL if nfds is greater than FD_SET_SIZE and
+ * _DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT (or _DARWIN_C_SOURCE) isn't defined.
+ * http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Darwin/SymbolVariantsRelNotes/_index.html
*
* When fd_set is not big enough to hold big file descriptors,
* it should be allocated dynamically.