From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 19:15:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA08716 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA08710 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:15:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA13389; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 20:11:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602100311.UAA13389@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: POSIX 1003.1b compliance (timespec revisited) To: cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au (John Birrell) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 20:11:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au In-Reply-To: <199602092229.JAA18304@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Feb 10, 96 09:28:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I recently posted a note to this list about the FreeBSD definition of > timespec and the fact that it does not comply with IEEE 1003.1b-1993. > I noted that NetBSD was about to make the change. Well the NetBSD change > has happened and has found its way to at least a mirror at this end of the > earth. So how about making the change to FreeBSD too? These structures are everywhere. 8-(. Not to mention that "time" in kernel.h is referenced directly instead of via a macro. 8-(. The cleanup on these things should probably wait until after David Greenman integrates the Lite2 code. I think NetBSD did this some time ago. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.