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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: "Sadashiiv, Halesh" <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding select() on PPC
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:00:07PM +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
>>For negetive value of n (first argument to select) select fails with
>EINVAL
>>error,
>>
>>But for the same when I tested for PowerPC it was giving EFAULT,
>>Its on 2.6.16 kernel.

2.6.16 is really old.  I tested your testcase on a 2.6.25 based kernel on
a ppc64 machine and it seemed to work fine.

josh