Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:43:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: epoll_ctl and const correctness | From | nicolas sitbon <> |
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According to this link : http://lse.sourceforge.net/epoll/index.html, you're are the author of epoll, so please can you answer my questions. TBA.
2009/3/25 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, nicolas sitbon wrote: > >> Currently, the prototype of epoll_ctl is : >> >> int epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct epoll_event *event); >> >> I searched in the man of epoll_ctl and google, and it seems that the >> structure pointed to by event isn't modify, valgrind confirms this >> behaviour, so am I wrong? or the good prototype is >> >> int epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct epoll_event const *event); > > According to the current ctl operations, yes. But doing that would prevent > other non-const operations to be added later on. > > > - Davide > > >
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