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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:35:30 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, bde@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is it time to expose timespecsub and friends to userland?
Message-ID:  <1521228930.99081.66.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2izMeWGAh4t0zVb92NuHj-4cFpRsBTy-jUsGGhR4yyCTQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 13:31 -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
> 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.
> > [...]
> > 
> Good point.  A quick grep finds a few examples.  I'll make sure to
> remove
> them.

Hmm, I'll bet there are some ports that also define the obvious names
locally and that'll cause problems if we move the names out from under
#ifdef __KERNEL.  So an exp-run will probably be needed too.

-- Ian



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