tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) writes:
>I'm currently attempting to port Listproc 6.0c to NetBSD 1.3(alpha), and in
>order to make the system interactive, it calls semaphore functions including
>semctl().  However, it calls semctl() with 4 args in some cases, and 3 args
>in others.

The calls with only three args are bogus.  semctl() always takes 4 args.
Although you used get away with sloppy code like this.  Though not, if you
use lint(1).

>Was semctl() orginally designed with variable arguments (that is, the last
>arg was optional when there was no argument to pass)?  If so, would there be
>harm in changing our definition to semctl(int, int, int, ...), making the
>last arg automatically NULL when omitted?

No. semctl() is NOT a variadic function.  And declaring it as such does NOT
make the last arg automatically NULL when omitted.

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