ChangeLogTag:Wed May 24 20:18:59 2000 Ossama Othman <ossama@uci.edu>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ace/Select_Reactor_Base.cpp b/ace/Select_Reactor_Base.cpp
index cfd6d183f35..baca4ca60f3 100644
--- a/ace/Select_Reactor_Base.cpp
+++ b/ace/Select_Reactor_Base.cpp
@@ -102,9 +102,21 @@ ACE_Select_Reactor_Handler_Repository::open (size_t size)
     ACE_SELECT_REACTOR_EVENT_HANDLER (this, h) = 0;
 #endif /* ACE_WIN32 */
 
-  // Try to increase the number of handles if <size> is greater than
-  // the current limit. 
-  return ACE::set_handle_limit (size);
+  // Check to see if the user is asking for too much and fail in this
+  // case.
+  if (size > FD_SETSIZE)
+    {
+      errno = ERANGE;
+      return -1;
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      // Try to increase the number of handles if <size> is greater than
+      // the current limit.  We ignore the return value here because this
+      // is more of a "warning" not an error.
+      (void) ACE::set_handle_limit (size);
+      return 0;
+    }
 }
 
 // Initialize a repository of the appropriate <size>.