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@@ -78,12 +78,13 @@ USB devices.</p>
sockets), select(2) can return 0 and shows no fd with input waiting
even when data is in fact ready to be read from some of the devices.</p>
-<p>This happens often enough to make gpsd unreliable. Unfortunately,
-it's an unusual enough use case of select(2) that we may be the only
-victims.</p>
+<p>This happens reliably and makes gpsd unusable. Apple has known about
+this for some time now: <a
+href='http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2001/Oct/msg00716.html'>
+http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2001/Oct/msg00716.html</a>
+</a></p>
-<p>Observed by Chris Kuethe under Darwin kernel 8.8.1 on an x86
-Mac mini.</p>
+<p>Observed by Chris Kuethe under Darwin kernel 8.8.1 on an x86 Mac mini.</p>
<h2>Python socket library barfs on IPV6 notation in the /etc/hosts file</h2>