Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:54:10 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Oliver Heesakkers <freebsd@heesakkers.info> Cc: deischen@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG, davidxu@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION Message-ID: <20111114165410.GA57883@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <3734779.ZtEaqKsg3d@pcoliver.heesakkers.info> References: <3734779.ZtEaqKsg3d@pcoliver.heesakkers.info>
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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=8e94ead26537eb398c3555288877eb0d2d70e28d;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.
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