Description of problem:

The select() system call takes twice as long to timeout as it should.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

CentOS 5.5 (regression; CentOS 5.4 is fine)

How reproducible:

Always reproducible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat > select.delay.c << EOF
/* Tiny program to show CentOS 5.5 bug. Public domain */

#include <sys/select.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main() {
        struct timeval tv;
        tv.tv_sec = 1;
        tv.tv_usec = 0;
        select(0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&tv);
        return 0;
}
EOF 
2. cc -o select.delay select.delay.c
3. time ./select.delay
  
Actual results:

Numbers along these lines:

real 0m2.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.005s

Expected results:

Numbers like this:

real 0m1.098s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

Additional info:

This is a bug because the POSIX specification for "select()" at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/select.html states that "the timeout period is given in seconds and microseconds" and the POSIX specification for "time.h" at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/time.h.html points out the tv_sec is seconds, e.g. "time_t tv_sec Seconds".