Re: epoll_ctl and const correctness

nicolas sitbon
2009-03-27T23:10:41Z

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@tls.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
>