Re: epoll_ctl and const correctness

[Davide Libenzi]

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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