Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 15:21:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au (John Birrell) Cc: lambert.org!terry@werple.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Subject: Re: POSIX 1003.1b compliance (timespec revisited) Message-ID: <199602102221.PAA16815@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602102100.IAA07494@werple.net.au> from "John Birrell" at Feb 11, 96 08:00:28 am
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> > 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! ] The problem is that it increases the diffs against 4.4BSD-Lite2 in all file systems, and so hampers integration. Wait for the 4.4BSD-Lite2 integration, please. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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