From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 17 20:43:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A874A113CB for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25201; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:13:09 +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: <199902180436.VAA64812@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:13:09 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Dillon Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Feb-99 Warner Losh wrote: > Linux's system call still modifies things. However, there is a > bsd_select in most libraries that does the right thing, at least the > thing that all other oses do. Yeah, well, given the man page says you shouldn't assume the tv doesn't change, maybe they thought they could make things better :) I suppose it was naivity showing through.. Of course, who reads man pages anyway? --- 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-hackers" in the body of the message