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List:       openldap-bugs
Subject:    Re: [Issue 10190] Stack space exhaustion on windows due to FD_SETSIZE
From:       Howard Chu <hyc () symas ! com>
Date:       2024-03-15 7:59:48
Message-ID: 337754d9-ef99-8841-46a3-4371413a125a () symas ! com
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openldap-its@openldap.org wrote:
> https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10190
> 
> --- Comment #6 from varunpatil@ucla.edu ---
> (In reply to Howard Chu from comment #5)
> > (In reply to varunpatil from comment #4)
> > > > Patches to change constants that are already redefinable at compile \
> > > > time will not be accepted.
> > > 
> > > Why though? This seems like a very crappy policy.
> > > 
> > > This bug took a very long time to diagnose and I've no doubt others \
> > > might run into it if they bothered to compile for Windows.
> > 
> > What bug? You haven't identified any bug. OpenLDAP builds and runs fine \
> > on Windows, and the slapd server handles thousands of concurrent \
> > connections, same as when built on Linux. There is no bug here.
> 
> Did you even bother to read the description? I don't care if your slapd \
> server handles millions of connections; fact is that a simple app using \
> libldap can segfault under certain circumstances on Windows, and I \
> consider this a bug.

The code works as designed, and the smooth operation of millions of servers \
around the world is more important than the opinion of a single \
self-entitled ignorant prick.

It's not the 1980s, you can afford to set your program to use a stack \
larger than 64K.

-- 
  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/


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