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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
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