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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout
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    This is extremely useful behaviour. POSIX is broken here. Fix it in the
    C library or somewhere it doesn't harm the clueful

Why is it useful?  For signal handlers to see how much waiting time is
left?
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