Re: More Test 15 [CGF please comment]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:26:42AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Chris,
>
>The Xserver code contains the following line
> i = Select (MaxClients, &LastSelectMask, NULL, NULL, wt);
>wt is set to 10 ms and Select is #defined as select()
>By using gdb and netstat, I observe 
>1) that the call to select() generates a new connection
>2) that, after a while, a large number of connections exist
>3) that after about ~ 2000 calls select() doesn't return.
>All of that on WinMe. I have no idea why it is so, either.

So, you are again mentioning that you are seeing a "connection".

A connection, to what?

If you think that select is at fault, then look at the socket
specific code in select.cc in the Cygwin DLL.

cgf