From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 10 13:57:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13313 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 13:57:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from werple.net.au (werple.mira.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13308 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 13:57:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from cimaxp1.UUCP (Ucimlogi@localhost) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with UUCP id IAA07495 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 08:00:26 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199602102100.IAA07495@werple.net.au> X-Authentication-Warning: werple.net.au: Ucimlogi set sender to cimaxp1!jb using -f Received: by cimaxp1.cimlogic.com.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/10Sep95-0953AM) id AA05162; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 08:00:28 +1100 From: John Birrell Subject: Re: POSIX 1003.1b compliance (timespec revisited) To: lambert.org!terry@werple.net.au (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 08:00:28 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au In-Reply-To: <199602101852.LAA16206@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 10, 96 11:52:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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 ?? > [...] > FreeBSD is based on the 4.4BSD-Lite code, and has not imported all of > the Lite2 improvements, but plans to. Regardless of when Lite2 is imported, renaming ts_sec to tv_sec and ts_nsec to tv_nsec could take place now. The change doesn't affect the design of the code, and as far as I can see, there are no places where ts_sec or ts_nsec are used for anything other than fields in the timespec structure. [ And even the bogus build process can handle this change! ] > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 6900 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137