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Date:      Mon, 02 Sep 2002 17:40:21 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit API/ABI changes proposal for -current
Message-ID:  <3D7404F5.B316FBA4@mindspring.com>
References:  <55509.1030995196@critter.freebsd.dk> <200209021942.g82JgIZn032728@apollo.backplane.com>

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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Ok, we have an issue in regards to libc/user function visibility.
>     The bintime structures and functions are surrounded by __BSD_VISIBLE.
> 
>     The question to you and to the list in general is:  what to call the
>     user-visible structure.  'bintime' is a cute name, I certainly like
>     it better then timeval64, and we could probably get away with calling
>     the user visible structure bintime, but I don't know if we can get
>     away with including all the supporting inline functions (not that we
>     necessarily have to include them for the syscall work, but it would
>     be nice).

What do Linux, Solaris, SCO, etc. call it?  Whatever it is, it
should be the same, so that source code does not need to be
"#if"'ed.

-- Terry

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