On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:54:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT wrote:
> Since 5.2 AIX supports /dev/random and /dev/urandom. Openssl don't use it
> because the select
> system call works different on AIX than on linux.
>
> As described in the following URL, the select system call expects the
> number
> of file describtors as first parameter in AIX. Linux expects the highst
> numbered
> fd +1.
>
> http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/libs/commtrf1/select.htm
Are you sure? select() is around since UNIX exists, that means the early 70s,
maybe longer. I am not that good when it comes to UNIX history :-)
I would not believe that IBM would break more or less all programs by
chaning the select() API in an incompatible way.
Best regards,
Lutz
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