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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:12:06 +0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Any idea why timespec* is _KERNEL stuff only?
Message-ID:  <20040721121206.GA746@frontfree.net>
In-Reply-To: <82157.1090409805@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20040721113211.GA1899@frontfree.net> <82157.1090409805@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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* macr=
os
> >to be _KERNEL (KERNEL in the old days) only. Is this intended? (NetBSD a=
nd
> >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 :-)
>=20
> 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 hav=
e my
own version of timespec* macros in my program, for compability reasons?

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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