strace of digitemp to illustrate the behaviour: * on 2.6.32-26-generic with 55b5b5448771f964776a716227afd3ddef2c860e reverted
strace of digitemp to illustrate the behaviour: 4776a716227afd3 ddef2c860e reverted
* on 2.6.32-26-generic with 55b5b5448771f96