From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 10 23:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28424 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28403 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00741; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:54:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812110717.XAA35358@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:54:38 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: inetd: realloc/free bug Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com, Archie Cobbs , Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Dec-98 Matthew Dillon wrote: > I definitely think it's a mistake to change select()'s timeout operation, > too many programs pre-set the timeval and assume it will not be changed > on multiple calls to select(). If we were to implement a returned-time it > would have to be with a new system call. Which would be useful.. I would like to have this functionality when I write code :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message