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To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
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Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: headers that use "struct bintime"
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In message <20120520004236.D1313@besplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Sat, 19 May 2012, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>>>  Or maybe "struct bintime" be defined unconditionally?
>>
>> I think this is the best/right way to go.
>
>Not permitted.

>sys/time.h is still massively polluted in other ways:
> [...]
>Not permitted in POSIX.1, [...]

I think at this time, we can either religiously stick to POSIX
and become irellevant with it, or we can develop our APIs to
become useful and desirable, and have a chance to survive.

Strictly 1980-compatible APIs will not gain FreeBSD 10+ any
new users.

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