Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:23:43 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: struct timeval tv_sec type mismatch ? Message-ID: <20051112102343.A4222@xorpc.icir.org>
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on freebsd 5.x and above, the tv_sec field of struct timeval has type 'long' (defined here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/_timeval.h whereas apparently most platform have it as time_t, and i believe there are standards that require that: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/time.h.html Any reason to keep it as a 'long' ? The differences between these two types prevents from passing &tv.tv_sec to functions requiring a time_t * as arguments, which is apparently a relatively common practice. cheers luigi
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