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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:51:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The fact is, the linuxism exists, and breaking it is worse than not
> breaking it.

fortunately, glibc uses poll() rather than select() these days (so that it
avoids bugs with programs with huge numbers of fds).  so that ancient code
in the libc5 resolver (see res_send) which still relies on this linuxism
is dying out :)

-dean

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