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Message-ID: <84a01a8b0903271610u17267f87u65b097ac2d755a52@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:10:28 +0100 From: nicolas sitbon <nicolas.sitbon@...il.com> To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: epoll_ctl and const correctness is it stupid to ask how a size can be negative? who is stupid? you're boring with my question, just tell me please how a size can be negative? 2009/3/28 Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>: > nicolas sitbon wrote: >> >> Do you read my post? there is a confusion, my question was first : why >> the structure isn't const? and you answer me. ok. second, I asked if >> the kernel keep track of this structure, that is, it keeps a pointer >> on it for doing his job? according to your last answer, no. last >> question : why the size type of the first parameter of epoll_create is >> int and not size_t? no answer for the moment. > > Why can't you ask all your questions at once? > > The answer to your last one is in the manpage. size_t, as > name suggests, is used for sizes of various memory regions, > in bytes. Here, we're dealing with something else, not bytes. > > And probably the next question will be of the sort why the argument > is named 'event' and not 'Event' or 'EventPtr', and why there's no > space after the star character... Oh well. > > /mjt > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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