Comment 39 for bug 882147

Notice the comment #30 above: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/882147/comments/30

Also note that there is some confusion about known behavior of released kernels. I suggest that if a kernel is released and it's select() call does not behave appropriately that every application that uses select() should be patched to detect if it's running under such a kernel, though there are other opinions.

For example the kernel will detect known problems with FPUs/CPUs and handle these appropriately, such should be the way with applications and released kernel APIs.