Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:34:07 +0100 From: Oliver Heesakkers <freebsd@heesakkers.info> To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _POSIX_CLOCK_SELECTION Message-ID: <1806297.YA8GNil8TN@pcoliver.heesakkers.info> In-Reply-To: <20111114165410.GA57883@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <3734779.ZtEaqKsg3d@pcoliver.heesakkers.info> <20111114165410.GA57883@zim.MIT.EDU>
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Op ma 14 nov 2011 11:54:10 schreef David Schultz: > 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=8e94ead > > 26537eb398c3555288877eb0d2d70e28d;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. Is there any news / confirmation / dismissal on this? I don't want to be pushy, I'm just very curious. Is this something that should get a PR?
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