From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 24 13: 3:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE62D152FB for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id NAA13661; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:01:36 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA19469; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:01:36 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id NAA00363; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:00:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388CBEC7.BC807C68@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:06:15 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/13644 References: <000001bf669f$94c4ec70$021d85d1@youwant.to> <200001242006.PAA35725@misha.cisco.com> <20000124125150.C26520@fw.wintelcom.net> <200001242035.MAA91877@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon 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. More correctly, 'nul' or 'NUL' are ASCII character 0. 'nil' is a pascal phrase that should *not* find its way into the general UNIX lexicon. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message