On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Stefan Krause wrote:

> 15045:277 curlSelect(): errno = 9, msg = Bad file descriptor
> curlSelect(): errno = 9, msg = Bad file descriptor [repeated 300
> times]

> OS was QNX 6.3.2. libCurl version=7.19.3.
> The select error occured during an endurance test.
> The timestamps left are of format seconds:milliseconds.
>
> select() returned -1 and the errno was 9 / EBADF / "Bad file descriptor"

> What might be the reason for that error ?

Well, call me crazy but I would guess that one possible reason is that
select() considered one or more of the file descriptors in use to be bad.

> Maybe it is a problem of the OS and has nothing to do with libCurl ?

Could be. It's not easy to tell for us, but we've never seen this problem
reported before.

> How severe is that problem in general? Can it destabilize the whole system
> (->crash) ?

I have no idea.

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