svn commit: r247300 - in head: sys/sys usr.bin/truss

[Davide Italiano]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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> On 02/26/13 09:09, Davide Italiano wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:41 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, February 25, 2013 9:13:02 pm Xin LI wrote:
>>>> Author: delphij Date: Tue Feb 26 02:13:02 2013 New Revision:
>>>> 247300 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/247300
>>>>
>>>> Log: Expose timespec and timeval macros when __BSD_VISIBLE is
>>>> defined.  This allows userland application to use the following
>>>> macros:
>>>>
>>>> timespecclear, timespecisset, timespeccmp, timespecadd,
>>>> timespecsub;
>>>>
>>>> timevalclear, timevalisset, timevalcmp.
>>>
>>> Why not fix truss to use the stock functions instead of keeping
>>> private "unusual" versions?
>>>
>>> -- John Baldwin
>>
>> time.h is already a mess in terms of namespace pollution, and this
>> exposure might not help thing. Other details here:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.architechture/15518
>
> What would be the preferred way of doing these operations on a
> timespec structure then?  Should the caller duplicate these macros?
>
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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Well, it may be. And maybe this might be a topic for a larger discussion.
What's your use-case?

-- 
Davide

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