[PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Tue Oct 14 08:40:40 EST 2008


Sadashiiv, Halesh writes:

> I have tested the testcase that I have provided at the time of reporting
> this issue. But it didn't work as expected with the above patch you
> provided.
> (Failed to return EINVAL on negative value of n to select())

How is your testcase invoking select?  Is it doing its own hand-coded
system call using __NR_select?  If so the testcase is broken - it
should be using __NR__newselect.

If the test is using the ordinary glibc select(), then please send the
source code of the test program.

Paul.



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