NetBSD Problem Report #43172

From jruohone@gmail.com  Sat Apr 17 09:37:46 2010
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From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@iki.fi>
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Subject: swab(3) lacks restrict-keyword
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>Number:         43172
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       swab(3) lacks restrict-keyword
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 17 09:40:01 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Sat Apr 17 17:49:15 +0000 2010
>Last-Modified:  Sat Apr 17 17:50:02 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Jukka Ruohonen
>Release:        5.99.27
>Organization:
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>Environment:
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>Description:

According to POSIX, the restrict-keyword should appear in swab(3).

See: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/

As a footnote: for example FreeBSD has already added the keyword.

>How-To-Repeat:

Code inspection, swab(3).

>Fix:

Add the keyword.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@iki.fi>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/43172: swab(3) lacks restrict-keyword
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:42:33 +0300

 I am not sure if this is relevant, but our implementation also differs from
 others (namely, FreeBSD and Linux) in that the third parameter is of type
 size_t instead of ssize_t.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, jruohonen@iki.fi
Subject: Re: lib/43172: swab(3) lacks restrict-keyword
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:30:57 +0200

 On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 09:45:01AM +0000, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 >  I am not sure if this is relevant, but our implementation also differs from
 >  others (namely, FreeBSD and Linux) in that the third parameter is of type
 >  size_t instead of ssize_t.

 ssize_t makes no sense here.

 Martin

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: christos@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:49:15 -0400
State-Changed-Why:
fixed, thanks


From: Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/43172 CVS commit: src/include
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:48:34 -0400

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Sat Apr 17 17:48:34 UTC 2010

 Modified Files:
 	src/include: unistd.h

 Log Message:
 PR/43172: Jukka Ruohonen: swab(3) lacks restrict-keyword


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.121 -r1.122 src/include/unistd.h

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