From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 17 23:43:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA32D11128 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id RAA07295; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:19 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.detir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xma007279; Thu, 18 Feb 99 17:42:13 +1000 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15496; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19362; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:12 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost.detir.qld.gov.au [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27123; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199902180742.RAA27123@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change References: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:11:24 -0700" Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:10 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 17th February 1999, Warner Losh wrote: >Actually, please review these changes. They are closer to english >than the last one. >+Other systems may modify timeout, but no current ones do it by default. I am possibly displaying my ignorance, but I thought linux did this by default. >+A future, different system call might modify timeval, but too much legacy >+code exists which depends on this behavior. >+Therefore, >+.Fn select >+will likely never change to modify timeout. I would prefer to keep the fire and brimstone warning. select() should be changed to do the subtraction. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message