Re: [PATCH][2/4] poll()/select() timeout behavior

[Andrew Morton]

"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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