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From: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:53:29 -0700
Subject: Re: Regarding select() on PPC
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> 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.
> 
> Please let me know, If this is fixed or it's a issue in PPC.
> For other archs its working fine.

Interesting.  The man page for select says that select should return
EINVAL when the first argument is negative.  By that, only ppc32 is
correct.  :)

-Dale