> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/select.html>
> says that 'select' may modify its timeout argument only "upon
> successful completion". However, the Linux kernel sometimes modifies
> the timeout argument even when 'select' fails or is interrupted.
This is extremely useful behaviour. POSIX is broken here. Fix it in the
C library or somewhere it doesn't harm the clueful
You should raise this with the standards committee instead
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