Marking select(2) as restrict

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Wed Feb 21 18:07:25 UTC 2018


<<On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:44:00 +0200, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> said:


> I fail to find an explanation of the supposed benefit of the change
> you proposing.  Please point it out.

Compliance with the 2001 POSIX standard (and subsequent versions).

After C99, all POSIX interfaces that use pointers were updated to
include the restrict qualifier where applicable.

-GAWollman



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