[Bug 386558]

[Damien Miller]

These checks break programs compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE that allocate
fd_sets on the heap. This has long been supported by Linux, all BSDs and
many commercial Unix as a way to avoid FD_SETSIZE limits.

Please consider revising the checks to detect explicitly allocated
fd_sets or add a preprocessor flag to disable the check.

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Title:
  RLIMIT_NOFILE > FD_SETSIZE seems to cause select() to corrupt the
  stack

Status in GLibC:
  Fix Released
Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  We've found that when a program has a lot of FDs open and does a
  select(), that the stack can get corrupted.

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