From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 11 11:44:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17960 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17951 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06676; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdmT6668; Fri Dec 11 19:42:40 1998 Message-ID: <367175AB.695678E2@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:42:35 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh CC: Matthew Dillon , Archie Cobbs , jwd@unx.sas.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd: realloc/free bug References: <199812110659.WAA35073@apollo.backplane.com> <199812110654.WAA25455@bubba.whistle.com> <199812110711.AAA00506@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <199812110659.WAA35073@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: > : :By the way, from man select(2): > : : > : : BUGS > : : select() should probably return the time remaining from the original > : : timeout, if any, by modifying the time value in place. This may be im- > : : plemented in future versions of the system. Thus, it is unwise to assume > : : that the timeout value will be unmodified by the select() call. > : : > : :Is this ever going to be implemented? I think this warning's been > : :around for at least 10 years now.. > > No. It breaks too many things. less and less all the time, as Linux does this.. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message