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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: "Sadashiiv, Halesh" <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall
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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.