RE: SECURITY.NNOV: Multiple applications fd_set structure bitmap array index overflow

["David LeBlanc" <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm@xxxxxxxxxxx] said:

>This effectively limits select to a maximum of FD_SETSIZE descriptors
on Windows. I don't think that this limitiation exists on other
platforms.

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Note the bit where it says:

#ifndef FD_SETSIZE
#define FD_SETSIZE      64
#endif /* FD_SETSIZE */

So to make FD_SETSIZE any arbitrarily large value up to whatever your
system can handle, you just redefine FD_SETSIZE before you #include
winsock.h.