Is it time to expose timespecsub and friends to userland?

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 16 19:35:33 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 13:31 -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
> 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.
> > [...]
> > 
> Good point.  A quick grep finds a few examples.  I'll make sure to
> remove
> them.

Hmm, I'll bet there are some ports that also define the obvious names
locally and that'll cause problems if we move the names out from under
#ifdef __KERNEL.  So an exp-run will probably be needed too.

-- Ian


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