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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:44:00 GMT
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 4395d3ced5cf - main - Document that gettimeofday() is obsolescent
Message-ID:  <202404250944.43P9i0I5037389@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by 0mp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4395d3ced5cfa46df400b5bb9996f9d74476997e

commit 4395d3ced5cfa46df400b5bb9996f9d74476997e
Author:     Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-04-24 11:31:54 +0000
Commit:     Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-04-25 09:42:59 +0000

    Document that gettimeofday() is obsolescent
    
    Reported by:    kaktus
    Reviewed by:    kaktus, pstef
    MFC after:      3 days
    Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23942
---
 lib/libsys/gettimeofday.2 | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/libsys/gettimeofday.2 b/lib/libsys/gettimeofday.2
index 5b867aaad33c..cfba97149199 100644
--- a/lib/libsys/gettimeofday.2
+++ b/lib/libsys/gettimeofday.2
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd May 13, 2021
+.Dd April 24, 2024
 .Dt GETTIMEOFDAY 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@
 .Ft int
 .Fn settimeofday "const struct timeval *tp" "const struct timezone *tzp"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Em Note :
+The
+.Nm gettimeofday
+function
+.Po but not
+.Nm settimeofday Pc
+is obsolescent.
+See the
+.Sx STANDARDS
+section for more details.
+.Pp
 The system's notion of the current Greenwich time and the current time
 zone is obtained with the
 .Fn gettimeofday
@@ -121,6 +132,18 @@ A user other than the super-user attempted to set the time.
 .Xr ctime 3 ,
 .Xr timeradd 3 ,
 .Xr clocks 7
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Nm gettimeofday
+function is considered obsolescent and its usage discouraged by
+.\" XXX: This should be replaced in the future when an appropriate argument to
+.\" the St macro is available: -p1003.1-2017
+.No IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2017 Edition (\\(LqPOSIX.1\\(Rq) .
+Application should use the
+.Xr clock_gettime 2
+function instead as
+.Nm gettimeofday
+might be removed in the future.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn gettimeofday



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