xview applications crashed if ulimit -n is greater than 3232

[Gerhard Schleßelmann]

System is Ubuntu 10.04.4 i686
All comands from the xview-clients package are chrashed:
/usr/bin/clock
/usr/bin/cmdtool
/usr/bin/props
/usr/bin/textedit

gdb /usr/bin/textedit
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/textedit

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04

apt-cache policy xview-clients
xview-clients:
  Installiert: 3.2p1.4-25
  Kandidat: 3.2p1.4-25
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 3.2p1.4-25 0
        500 http://fai.desy.de/pub/repository/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Gerhard Schleßelmann (geglp)]

/usr/bin/clock debug session:

(gdb) backtrace
#0 ndis_send_ascending_fd (nclient=<value optimised out>, nbits=<value optimised out>, bits_ptr=0xbfffe8b0, func=0x19cf40 <notify_input>)
    at ndis_d_pri.c:121
#1 0x0019c5a3 in ndis_default_prioritizer (nclient=134567848, nfd=4096, ibits_ptr=0xbfffe8b0, obits_ptr=0xbfffe830, ebits_ptr=0xbfffe7b0,
    nsig=65, sigbits_ptr=0xbfffe9b0, auto_sigbits_ptr=0xbfffe930, event_count_ptr=0x268fac, events=0x0, args=0x0) at ndis_d_pri.c:77
#2 0x0019d190 in notify_client (nclient=134567848) at ndisdispch.c:325
#3 0x0019d84f in ndis_default_scheduler (n=1, nclients=0x8074928) at ndisdsched.c:39
#4 0x001f772d in scheduler (n=1, clients=0x8074928) at server.c:1504
#5 0x0019d59a in ndis_dispatch () at ndisdispch.c:158
#6 0x00199768 in notify_start () at ndet_loop.c:355
#7 0x00241ba0 in xv_main_loop (win_public=134681448) at window.c:668
#8 0x0804e2c3 in init_clck (argc=1, argv=0xbffff1b4) at clock.c:1860
#9 0x0804e4e5 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff1b4) at clock.c:2093

ndisdispch.c:225
int maxfds = GETDTABLESIZE();

ndis_d_pri.c:120
for (i = 0; i < howmany(nbits, NFDBITS); i++)

crash! if i < 101

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.