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Re: dumb question
Wolfram Gloger writes:
> > Due the poll bug, nscd will work only with kernel 2.1.108pre1 or
> > later.
>
> Is that at all related to the hang you reported with 2.0.34 in
> select()? Have you resolved why it does work with 2.0.33 yet ? In
> any case, 2.0.x doesn't have a poll() system call so it shouldn't
> suffer from such a bug...
The hang with 2.0.34 and select() was a linuxthread bug, which looks
like a select() bug. The kernel < 2.1.108pre1 problem is, that the
kernel doesn't ignore the fields, where the file descriptor is -1.
Thorsten
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