Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 21:05:25 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: PR docs/21708 Message-ID: <20031016010525.GA14918@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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What is the procedure for suggesting a PR that appears to be old and forgotten be closed? PR docs/21708 complains that the wording for the "timeout" value in kevent(2) is ambiguous. I don't know if someone fixed it on their own but the current wording is: If timeout is a non-NULL pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to wait for an event, which will be interpreted as a struct timespec. If timeout is a NULL pointer, kevent() waits indefinitely. To effect a poll, the timeout argument should be non-NULL, pointing to a zero-valued timespec structure. The same array may be used for the changelist and eventlist. That does seem to address the originator's concerns - "specifies a maximum interval" sounds like it is a relative value to me. Thanks. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |
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