Re: [PATCH] 'select' failure or signal should not update timeout

[Alan Cox]

> <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