From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 2 16:26:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E13A37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B2243E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g62NQNRC093291; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:26:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g62NQMCl093288; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:26:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:26:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200207022326.g62NQMCl093288@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: additional queue macro In-Reply-To: References: <3D222CA4.80865822@mindspring.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > I would by the way argue that the statement "The queue macros always > guaranteed that traversal was safe in the presence of deletions" to be > false. Nowhere was this guaranteed, in fact the Manual page goes to > lengths to NOT do this.. I'm fairly certain that this *was* documented somewhere, at some point in time, although I can't find it in rev. 1.1 of either the documentation or the code. Perhaps it was in a book (Stevens 2?). -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message