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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:50:49 +0900
From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
> >     The problem is that linux updates the timeval structure on return,
> >     telling you how much time is left.
> 
> Yup. I wish FreeBSD did that - the man page already states that one
> shouldn't rely on tv not being modified, so it shouldn't break POLA.

Manual pages aren't POLA. They are specs. Traditional usage is POLA.
Wanna different different behavior? Create a different function.

Besides, given that most usages have no need for this, it would be a
wast of space and time.

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