On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
[SNIPPED...]
Then shouldn't it return exactly the value that was set?
Whatever the kernel does internally with the value is of no
concern to the caller at the API. It could multiply it by the
phase-of-the-moon if necessary.
When an API says "set_foo(123)", it must be able to do
"val = get_foo()" and retrieve the same value. If not, it's
broken.
Instead of writing more documentation to explain an obvious bug
at the API, it should simply be fixed.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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