Is it time to expose timespecsub and friends to userland?

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 16 19:31:09 UTC 2018


On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> --------
> In message <1521223787.99081.63.camel at 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.
>
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
>

Good point.  A quick grep finds a few examples.  I'll make sure to remove
them.


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