Any idea why timespec* is _KERNEL stuff only?

[Xin LI]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:36:45PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >Hi, Poul-Henning,
> >
> >It seems that rev. 1.23 of sys/sys/time.h has constrained timespec* macros
> >to be _KERNEL (KERNEL in the old days) only. Is this intended? (NetBSD and
> >OpenBSD don't expect _KERNEL for these macros, e.g. timespeccmp, and I
> >personally think that these macros will be better for more generic use,
> >as timespec structure is not _KERNEL protected :-)
> 
> I agree.  I belive I made the _KERNEL only due to pressure from the
> standards people or possibly bde@, can't remember to be honest.

Oh... Shall I ask for a review for a change of the current behavior, or have my
own version of timespec* macros in my program, for compability reasons?

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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