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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:07:23 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Marking select(2) as restrict
Message-ID:  <23181.46427.671514.319710@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20180221104400.GU94212@kib.kiev.ua>
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<<On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:44:00 +0200, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> said:


> I fail to find an explanation of the supposed benefit of the change
> you proposing.  Please point it out.

Compliance with the 2001 POSIX standard (and subsequent versions).

After C99, all POSIX interfaces that use pointers were updated to
include the restrict qualifier where applicable.

-GAWollman




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