Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:16:19 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, bostic@sleepycat.com (Keith Bostic) Subject: Re: Shared-memory version of <sys/queue.h> macros Message-ID: <50080.1037002579@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Nov 2002 09:32:35 PST." <200211101732.gAAHWZ59035339@beastie.mckusick.com>
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In message <200211101732.gAAHWZ59035339@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick wr
ites:
>I am proposing to add a new version of the <sys/queue.h> macros that
>are designed to work in shared memory.
Sounds useful.
There is one thing about sys/queue I don't like:
#define SLIST_HEAD(name, type) \
struct name { \
struct type *slh_first; /* first element */ \
}
In fact I positively hate this because a grep for
"struct[ \t]*foobar"
fails to trigger on
SLIST_HEAD(foobarhead, foobar);
I would really like to see that fixed.
As for various standards groups standarizing this or not, I would
say that it doesn't surprise me that they don't: It would be useful
if they did.
By not standardizing it, they make sure that we have a mix of autoconf
crap and incompatible rotting versions all over the place, something
which is sure to generate more need for standardization work. :-(
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