[Ace-users] [ace-users] ACE non-blocking SSL SOCK_Acceptor and FD_SETSIZE.. bug? (both 5.5 and 5.6.1)

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Kyle,

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to.

> I've been load testing a server application that uses epoll and non-
> blocking ACE SSL SOCK_Acceptor.  All seems well until the socket
> handles go to 1024 and roll over to negative, at which point things
> get messy. In many cases, the internals of the Countdown Timer seem
> to be corrupted at this point, specifically the pointer to it's
> max_time_value.  Best I can tell, this seems to be a result of the
> Handle_Set performing some FD_XXX operations on negative handles in
> the ssl accept routine. It appears to be a known issue that using
> select-based operations on handles greater than the FD_SETSIZE won't
> work out, but I would expect it to return an error, not corrupt
> nearby memory. Is this one of those "Don't do that" things, or
> should I file a bug report form?

It depends on what parts of ACE you're using.  If you're using the
higher-level ACE frameworks (e.g., the Reactor and Acceptor/Connector)
then it should handle this sort of thing for you.  If you're using the
lower-level stuff then it's probably a "don't do that" thing.

Thanks,

        Doug
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