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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: nicolas sitbon <nicolas.sitbon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: epoll_ctl and const correctness
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:21:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CAA055.5060603@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84a01a8b0903250545n799a8727o1faad60c8eaf372e@mail.gmail.com>

nicolas sitbon wrote:
> valgrind confirms this
> behaviour, so am I wrong?

That doesn't prove very much.  Unlike usermode code, Valgrind doesn't 
instrument the kernel, so it computes the side-effects of kernel 
operations by parsing the syscall stream and simulating the effect.  
(That is to say, it strengthens your argument somewhat, but valgrind's 
handling of this syscall could be buggy.)

>  or the good prototype is
>
> int epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct epoll_event const *event);
>   

Putting "const" first is conventional.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 12:45 epoll_ctl and const correctness nicolas sitbon
2009-03-25 16:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-03-25 17:27   ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27 19:43   ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-25 21:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-03-25 21:37   ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27  9:44     ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27 21:47       ` Michael Tokarev
2009-03-27 22:17         ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27 22:30           ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27 22:40             ` Davide Libenzi
2009-03-27 22:42             ` Michael Tokarev
2009-03-27 22:55               ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27 23:01                 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-03-27 23:10                   ` nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27 23:16                     ` Michael Tokarev
2009-03-27 23:25                       ` nicolas sitbon

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