From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266705AbUJGOqG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:46:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266825AbUJGOqG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:46:06 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:53422 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266721AbUJGOp6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:45:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll(2) man page, likewise. From: Alan Cox To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: linux@horizon.com, aeb@cwi.nl, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20041007135110.16475.qmail@science.horizon.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1097156530.31754.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:42:13 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-10-07 at 15:26, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Wrong. It is a Linux kernel mistake to fail to implement a common > system call properly. Actually if you dig deeply only pselect() has posix guarantees, and we don't implement that. > So wake up. This is not a hobbiest thing anymore. The software > has GOT to work as specified. Take it up with whoever you paid for your installation