Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 18:30:49 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: headers that use "struct bintime" Message-ID: <15087.1337452249@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 May 2012 01:39:39 %2B1000." <20120520004236.D1313@besplex.bde.org>
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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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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