lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm     | 2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/Syscall.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
index 1f4a30829a917d734c8ca2cb46abcba2bfa3073b..2784ca6b85d26936aac16aa24dcc96e43b456c39 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ sub accept_dispatch { # Listener {post_accept} callback
 	my ($sock) = @_; # ignore other
 	$sock->autoflush(1);
 	my $self = bless { sock => $sock }, __PACKAGE__;
-	vec(my $rvec, fileno($sock), 1) = 1;
+	vec(my $rvec = '', fileno($sock), 1) = 1;
 	select($rvec, undef, undef, 1) or
 		return send($sock, 'timed out waiting to recv FDs', MSG_EOR);
 	my @fds = $recv_cmd->($sock, my $buf, 4096 * 33); # >MAX_ARG_STRLEN
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Syscall.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Syscall.pm
index a1f532353eab391020be7a94710433839fc2d278..5ff1d65fc9365df5c2ee022df19395e3e7d59970 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Syscall.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Syscall.pm
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
 # epoll_wait wrapper
 # ARGS: (epfd, maxevents, timeout (milliseconds), arrayref)
 #  arrayref: values modified to be [$fd, $event]
-our $epoll_wait_events;
+our $epoll_wait_events = '';
 our $epoll_wait_size = 0;
 sub epoll_wait_mod4 {
 	my ($epfd, $maxevents, $timeout_msec, $events) = @_;