Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:59:19 +0800 From: MQ <antinvidia@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A problem with the select(2) interface Message-ID: <be0088ce0705160559y4c312c7aqcc45cdd81f8f0323@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86wszah2ua.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <be0088ce0705140729m4c24f2cbr21f6f050aac75c89@mail.gmail.com> <86odknqvf3.fsf@dwp.des.no> <be0088ce0705150025q3a589369ib20d03cfe5de1520@mail.gmail.com> <86wszah2ua.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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2007/5/15, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>: > > MQ <antinvidia@gmail.com> writes: > > After all, I don't think this is a real problem with the first > condition. So is > > there any other reasons that we should not add the qualifier? Actually, > what I > > was anxious about is that there is some rules that ask the committers t= o > follow > > the standards stringently. If adjusting the type is impossible, shall w= e > add > > some comments in the man page to reflect that we do not write to the > address? > > It already has this: > > BUGS > Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification (``SUSv2'') allows system= s > to > modify the original timeout in place. Thus, it is unwise to assume > that > the timeout value will be unmodified by the select() system call. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > No, that is not what I want. I think we'd better add a comments that we *DO NOT WRITE TO THAT ADDRESS*, what the manual describes is that there may be some platforms which write to that address. It's not the same thing.
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