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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:35:30 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r247300 - in head: sys/sys usr.bin/truss
Message-ID:  <201302261335.38001.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACYV=-E2LddT1jmjvFTLsq_NymbxrEvHL9w4SCOZaVhGGy2p=Q@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201302260213.r1Q2D2N1016801@svn.freebsd.org> <201302260941.52534.jhb@freebsd.org> <CACYV=-E2LddT1jmjvFTLsq_NymbxrEvHL9w4SCOZaVhGGy2p=Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:09:42 pm Davide Italiano wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:41 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Monday, February 25, 2013 9:13:02 pm Xin LI wrote:
> >> Author: delphij
> >> Date: Tue Feb 26 02:13:02 2013
> >> New Revision: 247300
> >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/247300
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   Expose timespec and timeval macros when __BSD_VISIBLE is defined.  This
> >>   allows userland application to use the following macros:
> >>
> >>       timespecclear, timespecisset, timespeccmp, timespecadd,
> >>       timespecsub;
> >>
> >>       timevalclear, timevalisset, timevalcmp.
> >
> > Why not fix truss to use the stock functions instead of keeping private
> > "unusual" versions?
> >
> > --
> > John Baldwin
> 
> time.h is already a mess in terms of namespace pollution, and this
> exposure might not help thing.
> Other details here:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.architechture/15518

I think that is orthogonal.  Even if this is reverted I think truss should
be changed to use the "normal" timespecsubt() macro rather than using a custom
one with a different argument order.

-- 
John Baldwin



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