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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: timer_t ?
In-Reply-To: <20011206063238.A90238@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> "from Peter Jeremy
 at Dec 6, 2001 06:32:38 am"
To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:29:13 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
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Peter Jeremy writes:
> >Hi.. random question..  <sys/types.h> contains:
> >
> >    typedef   _BSD_TIMER_T_   timer_t;
> >
> >What is this used for? I can't find any uses of "timer_t".
> 
> In a recent -STABLE:
> 
> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpd/ntp_timer.c:87:        static timer_t ntpd_timerid;    /* should be global if we ever want */
> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate/ntpdate.c:80:static timer_t ntpdate_timerid;
> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate/ntptimeset.c:184:static timer_t ntpdate_timerid;

Hmm.. seems like ntpd should define this on it's own.
Probably there since antiquity.

-Archie

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