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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:32:59 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
Subject:   Re: Any idea why timespec* is _KERNEL stuff only? 
Message-ID:  <84539.1090427579@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:37:40 %2B1000." <20040721232310.Y2587@epsplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20040721232310.Y2587@epsplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>The timespec struct is POSIX standard.  POSIX has the correct number of
>functions for operating on timespec structs (none).

I am not in agreement mere.  As much as I hate timespec, we'll have
to live with it, and rather than have people make their own mistakes
I'd prefer to expose some functions/macros that do it right.

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