Hi again,

A couple of things I stupidly omitted from the original post (sorry!).
Here's a bit more gdb output:


(gdb) print fds
$1 = {fds_bits = {1400137067, 1147432549, 6647407, 403056675, 1835627120, 1986622569, 
    1936020069, 1702259823, 1868710258, 1867281522, 1886743407, 57681963, 1835627120, 
    1986622569, 1936020069, 1702259823, 1684291954, 1936942450, 1802465100, 1699901557, 
    1953265011, 122825247, 1835627120, 1986622569, 1936020069, 1702259823, 1920091506, 
    29295, 55323431, 1835627120, 1986622569, 1936020069}}
(gdb) print s
$2 = -1


evidently, 
	static int socketWritable(int s)
is being called with a negative value for s.

I'm not overly familiar with VM socket internals, so oncemore, I'll
leave it there. 

-M

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