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Benjamin Bannier reassigned MESOS-3795:
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Assignee: Benjamin Bannier
> process::io::write takes parameter as void* which could be const
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> Key: MESOS-3795
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-3795
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: libprocess
> Reporter: Benjamin Bannier
> Assignee: Benjamin Bannier
> Labels: mesosphere, tech-debt
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> In libprocess we have
> {code}
> Future<size_t> write(int fd, void* data, size_t size);
> {code}
> which expects a non-{{const}} {{void*}} for its {{data}} parameter. Under the
> covers {{data}} appears to be handled as a {{const}} (like one would expect
> from the signature its inspiration {{::write}}).
> This function is not used too often, but since it expects a non-{{const}}
> value for {{data}} automatic conversions to {{void*}} from other pointer
> types are disabled; instead callers seem cast manually to {{void*}} -- often
> with C-style casts.
> We should sync this method's signature with that of {{::write}}.
> In addition to following the expected semantics of {{::write}}, having this
> work without casts with any pointer value {{data}} would make it easier to
> interface this with character literals, or raw data ptrs from STL containers
> (e.g. {{Container::data}}). It would probably also indirectly eliminate
> temptation to use C-casts.
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