Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> That is still racy ... if the signal hits between loading that global to
> to pass it to select and the actual syscall entry ... pretty narrow but
> still there.

We don't load it; we pass a pointer to select. It works, but it's hardly
elegant.

-- 
dwmw2

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