--- src/radiusd.c.ORG	Thu Sep 19 20:19:35 1996
+++ src/radiusd.c	Wed Nov 20 22:41:39 1996
@@ -700,6 +700,19 @@
 	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)
 	{
@@ -709,6 +722,7 @@
 #else	/* Assume BSD */
 	dtablesize = getdtablesize ();
 #endif	/* _SC_OPEN_MAX */
+#endif /* BOGUS_CODE */
 
 	for (j = dtablesize; j >= 3; j--)
 	{