It broke nfsd under heavy load. The Linux-specific behaviour is
actually "better" in the sense that standard Unix behaviour can be
easily emulated from Linux behaviour but not vice versa.
Unfortunately, it breaks poorly writted software.
If your program relies on broken behaviour, for now, link with -lbsd;
hopefully glibc will have this by default (with __select() as the
Linux-specific variant; this is what currently happens with -lbsd.)
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