Re: System call select on R4600

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:54:10AM +0800, Macleod wrote:

>  My problem is "select" system call always return -1
>  and errno is -4142, but sys_select has never been called.
>  Think, it has some problem on handling system call. 
>  Because if I change SYS(sys_select, 5) to 4 arguments,
>  sys_select will be executed. 
>  Thanks!

This is a bug which was fixed a while ago.  I assume your application
is picking up a bad definition from an old kernel header package or so.
Still doing syscalls directly is a fragily; better avoid and use your
libc's select(3).

  Ralf