*** src/radiusd.c.orig	Thu Jul  4 12:26:45 1996
--- src/radiusd.c	Thu Jul  4 12:27:13 1996
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*** 477,482 ****
--- 477,495 ----
  	sigaction (SIGIOT, &action, NULL); /* Perhaps also known as SIGABRT ! */
  	sigaction (SIGFPE, &action, NULL);
  
+ 	/* the max number of open files should never be used as an argument
+          * for select(). On systems that support more than 256 open files
+          * select() is not able to handle that many fd's.
+          * In this case the max. number of fd's for select should not be
+          * set to the maximum number of descriptors.
+          * Since I'm too lazy to correct the code I set dtablesize to
+          * FD_SETSIZE. This is the only portable way to use select() on
+          * all descriptors. See also "Advanced Programming in the Unix
+          * Environment" (from W. Richard Stevens) and the BSD 4.4 manpage for
+          * select(2).
+          */
+ 	dtablesize = FD_SETSIZE;
+ #ifdef BOGUS_CODE
  #ifdef	_SC_OPEN_MAX
  	if ((dtablesize = sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX)) == -1)
  	{
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*** 486,491 ****
--- 499,505 ----
  #else	/* Assume BSD */
  	dtablesize = getdtablesize ();
  #endif	/* _SC_OPEN_MAX */
+ #endif /* BOGUS_CODE */
  
  	for (j = dtablesize; j >= 3; j--)
  	{