Spurious readiness notification for Select System call

Question

On http://linux.die.net/man/2/select, under BUGS section it is mentioned that the select system call may sometimes spuriously set the FD ready and the subsequent read call w

Answer 1

This is not exactly an answer, but looking over epoll, these problems seem to be solved for it.

And if I can trust this message in netdev, they at least tried to fix it in poll() and select() too (breaking other things).

Thus, this bug doesn't seem to be relevant in foreseeable future.