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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: misc/13326: additional timeval interfaces for <sys/time.h>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/13326; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com
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Subject: Re: misc/13326: additional timeval interfaces for <sys/time.h>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:05:02 +1000

 >	2 new interfaces for manipulating timeval structures in addition to
 >	those provided for NetBSD/OpenBSD compatibility in <sys/time.h>
 >
 >	Admittingly, they aren't strickly necissary, but seeing as how they
 >	increase readability of code which manipulates timevals, don't add
 >	any bloat unless they are used (in which care they aren't bloat),
 >	and extend functionality already provided by <sys/time.h>, I think
 >	that they would make good additions to FreeBSD.
 
 timevals have been obsolescent for 3-4 years since POSIX blessed timespecs.
 New interfaces for dealing with them shouldn't be added.
 
 Bruce
 


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