A problem with the select(2) interface

[MQ]

2007/5/15, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>:
>
> MQ <antinvidia at gmail.com> writes:
> > After all, I don't think this is a real problem with the first
> condition. So is
> > there any other reasons that we should not add the qualifier? Actually,
> what I
> > was anxious about is that there is some rules that ask the committers to
> follow
> > the standards stringently. If adjusting the type is impossible, shall we
> add
> > some comments in the man page to reflect that we do not write to the
> address?
>
> It already has this:
>
> BUGS
>      Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification (``SUSv2'') allows systems
> to
>      modify the original timeout in place.  Thus, it is unwise to assume
> that
>      the timeout value will be unmodified by the select() system call.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
>


No, that is not what I want. I think we'd better add a comments that we *DO
NOT WRITE TO THAT ADDRESS*, what the manual describes is that there may be
some platforms which write to that address. It's not the same thing.