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On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 07:46 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I would definitely switch over the ppc32 __NR_newselect implementation
> to sys_select. For __NR_select, there is no correct solution, the three
> options are the current ppc_select, the real sys_select or sys_ni_syscall.
> Each of these is broken in different ways, but in practice it will never
> be called anyway.
> 
> I love archeology.

Any idea when glibc got fixed ?

Ben