From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 694 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2003 15:40:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 684 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2003 15:40:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2003 15:40:28 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKJa7-0003HV-K5; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:40:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:40:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Richard Henderson , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, "J. Johnston" Subject: Re: [commit] Order parameters "rw", not "wr" Message-ID: <20031113154027.GA12374@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Cagney , Richard Henderson , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, "J. Johnston" References: <3FB0010D.7040108@redhat.com> <20031112021817.GA27225@redhat.com> <3FB3A2E8.8050003@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FB3A2E8.8050003@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00258.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:27:36AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:20:13PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > > >>The attached patch re-orders the xfer_partial interface so its > >>read/write buffers are ordered read/write (i.e., sanely). > > > > > >Eh?? The entire standard C library uses write/read. I don't > >see what's so unusual or non-canonical about it... > > O_RDWR Open for reading and writing > S_IRWXU 00700 user (file owner) has read, write and execute permission > drwxr-xr-x 2 cagney cagney 8192 Nov 11 13:52 bin Those aren't arguments, just a couple occurances of "read, write", so I fail to see the connection. Consider memcpy, strcat, fgets, sprintf. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer