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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:30:12 -0600
From:      Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, zrj@dragonflybsd.org
Subject:   Re: select call in devd
Message-ID:  <76665530-c7f1-cbe7-252b-a1d146b0f51d@vangyzen.net>
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On 02/14/2018 09:13, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> select(2) is declared with restrict for the pointers for fd. Can y'all
>> confirm this is the correct fix?
>>
> 
> No. It's not. Select is not declared with restrict parameters. pselect is,
> but select is not.

You're right, it's not, but it /should/ be:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html

	Issue 6
	The restrict keyword is added to the select() prototype for
	alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard.

> There's no real call to change it.

...unless he intends to mount a valiant effort to fix our declaration.

Eric



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