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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout
To: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:38:35 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org, alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox)
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> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/select.html>
> says that 'select' may modify its timeout argument only "upon
> successful completion".  However, the Linux kernel sometimes modifies
> the timeout argument even when 'select' fails or is interrupted.

This is extremely useful behaviour. POSIX is broken here. Fix it in the
C library or somewhere it doesn't harm the clueful

You should raise this with the standards committee instead
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