Re: [bug-inetutils] bug found in inetutils-1.5 telnet binary

[Debarshi Ray]

(Can't think of an excuse for such a delayed response.)

>  We've found a problem in the telnet binary in inetutils-1.5 where telnet
> hangs while making a connection. This happens when telnet inherits many file
> descriptors from the parent process.
>
> [...]
>
>  I have attached a small manyfd.c program that invokes telnet to show the
> problem, and I have attached a better version of sys_bsd.c.

Reproduced with latest CVS snapshot.

Happy hacking,
Debarshi
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