Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:51:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, zrj@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: select call in devd Message-ID: <CANCZdfo=TmCbY1iWYyp0m1c_AabeJ_bqC34fSK7gMsVwKJuRxw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1518626138.72050.29.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CAF6rxgmrkUS18kVPCK1VkBJAhBQ2vY3_MJgq%2BXNjqcx8yFi7Lw@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfpVqqgCmwJqKfdwWEntZgOeo7dpTbs5ab8-W5Lo6pz1zw@mail.gmail.com> <76665530-c7f1-cbe7-252b-a1d146b0f51d@vangyzen.net> <1518626138.72050.29.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:35 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 09:30 -0600, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > > On 02/14/2018 09:13, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > select(2) is declared with restrict for the pointers for fd. Can > y'all > > > > confirm this is the correct fix? > > > > > > > No. It's not. Select is not declared with restrict parameters. pselect > is, > > > but select is not. > > You're right, it's not, but it /should/ be: > > > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html > > > > Issue 6 > > The restrict keyword is added to the select() prototype for > > alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard. > > > > > > > > There's no real call to change it. > > ...unless he intends to mount a valiant effort to fix our declaration. > > > > Eric > > The fix isn't correct because of posix and/or a restrict keyword so > much as being the right thing to do because the only fd in the fdset is > open O_RDONLY, and it's not a socket that can provide OOB > notifications, so the fdset should be passed only as the readfds > argument because the other two types of events just can't happen. > Yea. Poll is likely a better interface. Warner
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