Re: [commit] Order parameters "rw", not "wr"

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-13T15:40:29Z

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer