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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:30:57 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Like your example, the only uses I've had personally (DVD playback) have
> really had an empty select, so it wasn't really select itself that was 
> horribly important.

All the real examples I've encountered are waiting on file descriptors
too -- and occasionally also signals.

-- Jamie
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