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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:31:06 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>,  FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, bde@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is it time to expose timespecsub and friends to userland?
Message-ID:  <CAOtMX2izMeWGAh4t0zVb92NuHj-4cFpRsBTy-jUsGGhR4yyCTQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

> --------
> In message <1521223787.99081.63.camel@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.
>
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
>

Good point.  A quick grep finds a few examples.  I'll make sure to remove
them.



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