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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Any idea why timespec* is _KERNEL stuff only? 
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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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