From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 10 10:56:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA05047 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:56:32 -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 KAA05037 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA16206; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 11:52:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602101852.LAA16206@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: POSIX 1003.1b compliance (timespec revisited) To: jerry@kcis.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 11:52:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jerry Kendall" at Feb 10, 96 09:07:37 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. > > > > For those of us, myself included, what is this 'Lite2' code ?? 4.4BSD-Lite was the initial 4.4BSD unencumbered release. It was to be the last CSRG release of all time. Some improvements were made, and a "Lite2" release was cut. FreeBSD is based on the 4.4BSD-Lite code, and has not imported all of the Lite2 improvements, but plans to. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.