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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:36:45 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Any idea why timespec* is _KERNEL stuff only? 
Message-ID:  <82157.1090409805@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:32:11 %2B0800." <20040721113211.GA1899@frontfree.net> 

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In message <20040721113211.GA1899@frontfree.net>, Xin LI writes:
>Hi, Poul-Henning,
>
>It seems that rev. 1.23 of sys/sys/time.h has constrained timespec* macros
>to be _KERNEL (KERNEL in the old days) only. Is this intended? (NetBSD and
>OpenBSD don't expect _KERNEL for these macros, e.g. timespeccmp, and I
>personally think that these macros will be better for more generic use,
>as timespec structure is not _KERNEL protected :-)

I agree.  I belive I made the _KERNEL only due to pressure from the
standards people or possibly bde@, can't remember to be honest.

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