From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:52:58 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] select: time comparison fixes
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc4~3
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74910e6c7dc7471b286a883c1a7af70483ffd2ba;p=pandora-kernel.git

[PATCH] select: time comparison fixes

I got all of these backwards.  We want to return

	min(input timeout, new timeout)

to userspace to prevent increasing the time-remaining value.

Thanks to Ernst Herzberg <earny@net4u.de> for reporting and diagnosing.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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