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From: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>
Subject: POSIX 1003.1b compliance (timespec revisited)
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 09:28:38 +1100 (EST)
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G'day,

I recently posted a note to this list about the FreeBSD definition of
timespec and the fact that it does not comply with IEEE 1003.1b-1993.
I noted that NetBSD was about to make the change. Well the NetBSD change
has happened and has found its way to at least a mirror at this end of the
earth. So how about making the change to FreeBSD too?

In /usr/src/sys/src/time.h FreeBSD defines:

/*
 * Structure defined by POSIX.4 to be like a timeval.
 */
struct timespec {
	long	ts_sec;		/* seconds */
	long	ts_nsec;	/* and nanoseconds */
};


NetBSD now defines:

/*
 * Structure defined by POSIX.1b to be like a timeval.
 */
struct timespec {
	time_t	tv_sec;		/* seconds */
	long	tv_nsec;	/* and nanoseconds */
};

which complies with IEEE 1003.1b-1993 14.1.1

I've just taken out all the NetBSD #if defined()'s  from our code, but
all the non-standard code is still required because of FreeBSD. Grrrr.
I hope someone with commit privileges and an up-to-date cvs tree can
spend 15 minutes fixing this. I don't see any point in me preparing
diffs for this (just grep for ts_sec and ts_nsec!).

Regards,


-- 
John Birrell                                CIMlogic Pty Ltd
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