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Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken by gpderetta on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:09AM (#12693539)
To repeat: my point is that the test case shown in the article and described in the bug cannot be used to reliably identify a broken poll as passing NULL for fds is, strictly speaking, UB.

I'm not making any claim about the actual source of the poll bug here.

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Re:Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken by JdeBP on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @10:54AM (#12734990)
At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12689472 that's exactly what you stated, and you were wrong. The test case has a zero length array; that it what it is exercising; and that is the locus of the bug, as the headlined article's detailed discussion makes clear.
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