Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 01:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Right but why can't glibc be fixed to use the longjmp trick internally.
That way pselect works properly for all applications as soon as the
glibc bug fix is
applied and the vendor/distro/whatever pushes a new glibc package ?

Alan

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