Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:27:51 -0400 (EDT) From: James Drobina <jdrobina@infinet.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/1632: Field names in struct timespec are incorrect Message-ID: <199609172327.TAA29844@infinet.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199609172330.QAA21306@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1632
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: Field names in struct timespec are incorrect
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 17 16:30:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: James Drobina
>Organization:
None
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386
>Environment:
2.2-CURRENT
>Description:
In sys/time.h, struct timespec is defined as:
/*
* Structure defined by POSIX.4 to be like a timeval.
*/
struct timespec {
time_t ts_sec; /* seconds */
long ts_nsec; /* and nanoseconds */
};
The correct names of the fields are tv_sec and tv_nsec.
(There was traffic about this problem on freebsd-bugs, but no
bug report.)
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
Define the structure as:
/*
* Structure defined by POSIX.4 to be like a timeval.
*/
struct timespec {
time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
long tv_nsec; /* and nanoseconds */
};
Don't forget the TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC and TIMESPEC_TO_TIMEVAL macros.
>Audit-Trail:
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