Problem with select(2) in single threaded runtime.

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-11-04 at 18:18:44 +0100, Merijn Verstraaten wrote:

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> This exits with EINVAL for me on OSX, if I replace INT_MAX with 1000,
> it runs just fine. The man page on OSX mentions EINVAL for values that
> exceed the maximum timeout, so it looks like OSX is not following the
> spec, then...

Btw, I also stumbled over these ancient bug-reports:

 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18909

 http://gnats.netbsd.org/11287

So it seems that BSD-ish systems have (or had?) this arbitrary 1e8
second limit in combination with the questionable EINVAL response which
seems in conflict with the POSIX specification.

I'm wondering if there's already an Autoconf test somewhere we could
steal for detecting this peculiarity of select() on BSD systems...

Cheers,
  hvr