Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:59:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen sysconf.c Message-ID: <20021117035935.GE6882@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200211170346.gAH3kWZm099704@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200211160635.gAG6ZKUX094649@repoman.freebsd.org> <200211160706.gAG76Z4S089556@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021116095822.GT50692@elvis.mu.org> <200211170202.gAH22oLd099179@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021117030805.GA6882@elvis.mu.org> <200211170333.gAH3XG7o099552@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021117034041.GC6882@elvis.mu.org> <200211170346.gAH3kWZm099704@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> [021116 19:46] wrote: > <<On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:40:41 -0800, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > But don't we want -1 for _SC_AIO_LISTIO_MAX and _SC_AIO_MAX when it's > > not loaded? > > Yes, but we want the kernel to return the correct value (or rather, we > want the kernel to return an error, which is not possible in the > current implementation, but as an ideal..) rather than having libc > patch up the wrong value. Actually the posix4_mib.c file could initialize those to -1. I'll put in a version that should cover all these cases. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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