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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