From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 19 16:36: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3215F10E54 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07750; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:35:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd007633; Fri Feb 19 17:35:44 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14755; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:35:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902200035.RAA14755@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: select(2) proposed change To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:35:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902180815.BAA66534@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 18, 99 01:15:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : select() should > : be changed to do the subtraction. > > Select should *NEVER* be changed to do the subtraction. There are > *NO* current systems that do this by default. FreeBSD shouldn't > change. It is a *********S***T***U***P***I***D********** idea to > change the semantics of select(2) at this late stage of the game. To play devil's advocate here: this particular argument didn't get me anywhere with the X3J11 committee with regards to "volatile", "noalias", and prototypes in place of mandating symbol attribution in object files, to catch the problem at link time. I think it has something to do with the IQ of groups. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message