Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:49:49 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: jmallett@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libfetch Makefile Message-ID: <20021029214349.W1156-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200210281550.HAA18637@windsor.research.att.com>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Bill Fenner wrote: > >> libfetch is now WARNS5 clean in the non-SSL case. > > > >With DECONST though, which only (sloppily) hides (valid) warnings... > > Better to create a new writev() system call which has a calling sequence > that allows passing in of constant buffers? Too late. POSIX.1 just (well, last year) standardized the broken interface. It's amazing how many mouldy interfaces POSIX.1-2001 has compared with POSIX.1-1990 (1988?). The corresponding problem for write(2) was fixed soon after `const' was standardized. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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