Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:13:09 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <XFMail.990218151309.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199902180436.VAA64812@harmony.village.org>
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On 18-Feb-99 Warner Losh wrote: > Linux's system call still modifies things. However, there is a > bsd_select in most libraries that does the right thing, at least the > thing that all other oses do. Yeah, well, given the man page says you shouldn't assume the tv doesn't change, maybe they thought they could make things better :) I suppose it was naivity showing through.. Of course, who reads man pages anyway? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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