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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/4] poll()/select() timeout behavior
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"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com> wrote:
>
> This patch cause select() to return EINVAL when passed an un-normalized
> timeval usec

Why?  The current behaviour is to do the right thing when passed a tv_usec
which is greater than 1,000,000.  Why not retain that?