Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:59:55 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendfile(2) SF_NOPUSH flag proposal Message-ID: <20030530105955.A6562@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <3ED72A16.9CACD4C5@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:53:26AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0305301302540.58337-100000@is> <3ED72A16.9CACD4C5@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 02:53:26AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > This illustrates my thesis that interfaces with the same names > tend to converge over time. Another example is select(), which > Linux initially implemented as updating the timeout struct with > the time which had elapsed; this was divergents, and broke a > lot of code, until they relented and fixed it to defacto standard It hasn't changed. And trying to change it broke perfectly working code.
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