Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:35:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change Message-ID: <199902200035.RAA14755@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902180815.BAA66534@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 18, 99 01:15:43 am
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> : select() should > : be changed to do the subtraction. > > Select should *NEVER* be changed to do the subtraction. There are > *NO* current systems that do this by default. FreeBSD shouldn't > change. It is a *********S***T***U***P***I***D********** idea to > change the semantics of select(2) at this late stage of the game. To play devil's advocate here: this particular argument didn't get me anywhere with the X3J11 committee with regards to "volatile", "noalias", and prototypes in place of mandating symbol attribution in object files, to catch the problem at link time. I think it has something to do with the IQ of groups. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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