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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:56:55 -0600
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
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:  <20001216135655.L89463@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012161945.eBGJjh507797@whizzo.transsys.com>
References:  <local.mail.freebsd-net/20001216112130.Y19572@fw.wintelcom.net> <200012161934.eBGJYdj75335@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200012161945.eBGJjh507797@whizzo.transsys.com>

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On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:45:43PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos 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.

Well, as it is a change in semantics, it does help to catch problems
in porting.  AFAIK, NetBSD (and probably Open) do not allow m_get() 
to return NULL in the M_WAIT case, so the underlying code will have to
be changed in order to handle this difference anyway.
--
Jonathan


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