Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:26:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls. |
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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.
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