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To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Is it time to expose timespecsub and friends to userland?
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In message <1521223787.99081.63.camel@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore writes:

>IMO, it's long overdue.  I've never understood why they weren't exposed
>on the day the were added.

I have a faint recollection that there were many copies in
userland already which I didn't want to deal with right there and then.

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