Busy-loop due to bad select timeout

Bug #1045571 reported by Edward Z. Yang
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Bug Description

If you run the sample Ruby application and check top/strace, you'll notice that select() is returning ETIMEOUT repeatedly. This is because the version of ruby-inotify being distributed has really bad select timeout behavior. It's been fixed in new upstream in Git, though not in rubygems. https://github.com/ruby-building-blocks/ruby-inotify

But really Ubuntu should be shipping rb-inotify, not inotify. http://rubygems.org/search?utf8=✓&query=inotify

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