From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9874@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ty6udejg.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA8FB27.7090700@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:33:11 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> * File descriptors are small ints on platforms I regularly use,
> but POSIX doesn't guarantee this assumption.
Every function returning a new file descriptor returns the smallest
available one, so if you want to get a very big one you have to have
odles of open files already (unless you force a particular descriptor
with dup2, which Emacs doesn't).
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-27 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 7:51 bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues Paul Eggert
2011-10-26 8:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-26 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 14:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-26 17:02 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-10-26 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 19:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-27 6:33 ` Paul Eggert
2011-10-27 8:28 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-10-27 15:14 ` Paul Eggert
2012-04-09 23:38 ` Paul Eggert
2012-05-25 20:50 ` Paul Eggert
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