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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_poll(): fix function definition/negative timeout
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Le jeudi 15 septembre 2011 à 10:47 -0700, Andi Kleen a écrit :
> Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> writes:
> 
> > Fix negative timeout values for x86 userland on x86_64 kernels.
> > Align sys_poll() definition to glibc's definition.
> 
> Nack. Please write a compat wrapper that sign extends.
> 

Why ?

man poll

int poll(struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int delay);