Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> If glibc has a race why not just fix glibc ?

.. because glibc tries to implement the "pselect()" interfaces that some 
other OS's implement.

Whether that is a good idea or not (it's not) is a different issue, but 
basically it means that apps don't use the longjmp trick exactly because 
they think pselect() works ok.

		Linus
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