Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:42:10 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change Message-ID: <199902180742.RAA27123@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:11:24 -0700" References: <199902180511.WAA65110@harmony.village.org>
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On Wednesday, 17th February 1999, Warner Losh wrote: >Actually, please review these changes. They are closer to english >than the last one. >+Other systems may modify timeout, but no current ones do it by default. I am possibly displaying my ignorance, but I thought linux did this by default. >+A future, different system call might modify timeval, but too much legacy >+code exists which depends on this behavior. >+Therefore, >+.Fn select >+will likely never change to modify timeout. I would prefer to keep the fire and brimstone warning. select() should be changed to do the subtraction. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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