_POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION

[Oliver Heesakkers]

Op ma 14 nov 2011 11:54:10 schreef David Schultz:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011, Oliver Heesakkers wrote:
> > After submitting a little patch for VLC I found out that the upcoming
> > 1.2
> > release will use, or rather require, _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION to be
> > defined > 1.> 
> > >From what little that I understand from C, the fact that
> > 
> > /usr/include/sys/unistd.h declares _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION to be -1 means
> > that it has not been implemented. Am I correct?
> > 
> > At least it means VLC 1.2 will (currently) fail to build:
> > http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=src/posix/thread.c;h=8e94ead
> > 26537eb398c3555288877eb0d2d70e28d;hb=HEAD#l460
> > 
> > Am I correct in concluding that FreeBSD is late in implementing
> > _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION (required since 2008), or is there another other
> > way, that I'm currently not seeing, to satisfy VLC 1.2 in it's
> > requirement?
> As far as I can tell, the clock selection option is fully
> supported, and only the macro is wrong.  I'm CCing some of the
> people who work on libthr for verification.

Is there any news / confirmation / dismissal on this?

I don't want to be pushy, I'm just very curious.

Is this something that should get a PR?