Look Ma' what I found on my harddisk ...

 o New faster syscalls for 2.1.x, too
 o Upgrade to 2.1.89.

Don't try to run this.  It's flaky as hell.  But feel free to debug ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/select.c b/fs/select.c
index 4c88f0437..1328660b0 100644
--- a/fs/select.c
+++ b/fs/select.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ static void free_wait(poll_table * p)
 		p->nr--;
 		entry--;
 		remove_wait_queue(entry->wait_address,&entry->wait);
+		fput(entry->filp);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -197,7 +199,6 @@ out:
 		free_page((unsigned long) wait_table.entry);
 	}
 out_nowait:
-	current->timeout = 0;
 	unlock_kernel();
 	return retval;
 }