Re: Questions about patches for hurdselect.c

[Svante Signell]

On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 20:58 +0100, Richard Braun wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:12:10AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > Richards patch "if (!err && got == 0 && firstfd != -1 && (firstfd !=
> > lastfd))" does not work, apt-get update (select-based) fails. So there
> > will be other means to avoid the double delay bug.
> 
> Please don't mention work I haven't released to explain bugs in your own
> work ... This was untested code which was later replaced. See [1].

Sorry, but the stuff above was not my invention. I adopted  it before it
was confirmed by you to work properly, sorry again. Still, there are
problems for the poll case by setting the timeout to zero in the
__io_select call. One example is ntpdate (it is now available, see the
debian-devel ML).