On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:20 +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote: > Hi, > > The below testcase requires to exit with setting errno as EINVAL, as per > the man page. > > I tested this on ARM, I686, PPC64 it was fine, for the same on PPC32 it > used exit with errno set as EFAULT. > > On further investigation found there was some long obsolete code in > arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c (function ppc_select()), which was > written in 2.2.0 kernel for PPC32 specific , which resulted in EFAULT. > > This needs to be verified, I have proposed patch for PPC32, Please check > the link > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/735922 >
I'm trying to sort out how obsolete it actually is and see if we can remove the whole thing. Your patch should be submitted to the linuxppc-dev mailing list btw. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
