Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:53:20 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, bmilekic@technokratis.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the names of some M_flags Message-ID: <20001216115319.Z19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200012161945.eBGJjh507797@whizzo.transsys.com>; from louie@TransSys.COM on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:45:43PM -0500 References: <local.mail.freebsd-net/20001216112130.Y19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <200012161934.eBGJYdj75335@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200012161945.eBGJjh507797@whizzo.transsys.com>
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* Louis A. Mamakos <louie@TransSys.COM> [001216 11:45] wrote: > > In article <local.mail.freebsd-net/Pine.BSF.4.21.0012161435130.34015-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com> you write: > > > > > >On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > >> I think M_DONTWAIT is fine as it was, and M_TRYWAIT instead of M_TRY_WAIT. > > >> > > >> Leaving it as M_DONTWAIT should reduce the delta by quite a bit and > > >> M_TRYWAIT vs M_TRY_WAIT because you have M_DONTWAIT/M_DONTBLOCK. > > >> > > >> -Alfred > > > > > > I agree. Anyone else before I re-roll? :-) > > > > I second Alfred's suggestion. > > Is this just going to make portablity between the various *BSD kernels > more difficult for what's essentially a cosmetic change? I'm thinking > of things like KAME, ALTQ, etc. I agree, however this argument keeps coming up: "I thought M_WAIT meant it would wait forever!" Personally, I think developers should do a bit more research and should have noticed all the places where M_WAIT was followed by a check for NULL and be able to bridge the gap. So honestly, I'm against the change, but if it has to be done then I'd like to see the M_DONTWAIT and M_TRYWAIT. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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