Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:09:04 +0300 From: Egor Duda X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45) Personal Reply-To: Egor Duda Organization: DEO X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <262729750.20010216120904@logos-m.ru> To: Warren Young CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat() In-reply-To: <3A8C3254.505A4AAE@etr-usa.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010213190131.14369.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <200102131935.OAA09136@envy.delorie.com> <20010213194612.17311.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <200102131954.OAA09284@envy.delorie.com> <20010213152313.A12830@redhat.com> <39319402546.20010214110838@logos-m.ru> <3A8C3254.505A4AAE@etr-usa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! Thursday, 15 February, 2001 Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote: WY> If this design is used, stat_lite() would be a misleading name. sure. inventing the name was the hardest part when i was implementing this function :) WY> How about stat_select(), since it would behave like select(2)? well, i would take word "select" as an implication that this function will block and wait for something to happen. "stat_selective" would be more intuitive, but it goes against the custom of not using adjectives in posix function names. Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple