Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:02:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, eischen@vigrid.com Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <20000124130228.F26520@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200001242035.MAA91877@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:35:06PM -0800 References: <000001bf669f$94c4ec70$021d85d1@youwant.to> <200001242006.PAA35725@misha.cisco.com> <20000124125150.C26520@fw.wintelcom.net> <200001242035.MAA91877@apollo.backplane.com>
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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [000124 12:59] wrote: > > :The manpage has been updated in -current: > : > : If timeout is a non-nil pointer, it specifies the maximum interval to > : wait for the selection to complete. System activity can lengthen the in- > : terval by an indeterminate amount. > : > : If timeout is a nil pointer, the select blocks indefinitely. > : > : To effect a poll, the timeout argument should be non-nil, pointing to a > : zero-valued timeval structure. > : > :If no one objects I'll be committing it to -stable and praying to the > :gods that this thread dies. > : > :-Alfred > > 'nil' ? 'nil' is the designation for an ascii 0, not a pointer. > Please use 'null' or 'NULL' -- for example, look at the gettimeofday > man page. 'nil' has nothing to do with pointers. I'll wait for more feedback and include this request in the final update, even if it's the only change. 'nil' doesn't cut it for me either. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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