Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> I know that returning an empty list changes the semantics: I just
> think that's better - or not as bad - than the current possibility of
> having any single piece of code possibly die upon EINTR.
> 
> If you want to implement retry with timeout re-computation, I'm not
> the one to who must be convinced :-)

Or, since we now have the selectors module, we could let select() live
with the current semantics.

By the way, it's already too late for 3.4, which is in feature freeze.

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