From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 11:00:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5506A16A401 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antinvidia@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EBB13C468 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antinvidia@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so961472nze for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 04:00:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ErT3D91z2IOCzSRhFPgnzPVHlM+cV7wdPN+MUAmMXkwt8FP7N+xBR9RfdctdBpilJ8BjotKT0EZSGMWR8zbdT6SD+2QNQWWkd5fQt/F5qj5KTj1qal8A6xjKBmcdEnvRVQt0IWAVVh1wHnIhN13R5gl7dj5ula08Xm3gw5VbL1Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=N52tBB7H5IxutuTvzI/8afhyOLEstd2ahVQbMyumZDRxNVXw7odKZr6lOHmHGcFKBUvb5t3ix8hDPszHzDoAI00is2DYbtuTy9zE/27Y7+2mdrZI9WOSqqSt7bXnvynhi5RN9ziYEIB8D4N9Wmf/1O5AXlJ7Vm+DXwf/WPlhxHo= Received: by 10.114.193.1 with SMTP id q1mr136757waf.1179399656973; Thu, 17 May 2007 04:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.54.2 with HTTP; Thu, 17 May 2007 04:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:00:56 +0800 From: MQ To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <86fy5wkim5.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <86odknqvf3.fsf@dwp.des.no> <86wszah2ua.fsf@dwp.des.no> <86fy5wkim5.fsf@dwp.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: A problem with the select(2) interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:00:58 -0000 2007/5/16, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav : > > MQ writes: > > 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. > > Some platforms update the timeval and some don't, so portable > applications must simply assume that its contents are undefined after > the select(2) call. It can not be relied on to contain either the > initial value nor the amount of time remaining. Thus your proposed > change is pointless. > > And stop yelling, please. It won't get you anywhere (except possibly my > kill file). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no > What is yelling? Did I yelling? I don't know how do you get this conclusion= . I just stated my opinion to let everyone understand what I was think about. If you were threatening to remove my mail from you mail box, do as you wish= .