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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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