> Taking a guess, I would say that the panic is caused by instability of > the linux select() implementation, and could therefore be abused in other > programs that manage an unlimited amount of connections using the select > syscall. its an old bug in 2.0 kernels with garbage collection on Unix domain sockets if you bumped the number up above the default. I believe 2.2 (certainly all modern 2.2) and 2.3 should be immune to this. Alan
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