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Re: Incomplete POSIX_TIMERS support?
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:32:19PM +0200, Keith Moore wrote:
>
>>/usr/include/sys/features.h defines _POSIX_TIMERS, presumably to
>>indicate that POSIX timers are supported. There seems to be something
>>missing, though.
>>
>>Under the influence of _POSIX_TIMERS, /usr/include/time.h defines
>>function prototypes for clock_gettime() and clock_getres() (and a few
>>others). clock_gettime() gets linked-in from libc.a, but I cannot find a
>>library for clock_getres().
>>
>>This is causing problems for the CVS version of wget, which assumes
>>_POSIX_TIMERS means all of the POSIX timer APIs are supported.
>>
>>Am I missing something here? Is there a clock_getres() somewhere?
>
>
> No, there isn't. Sorry.
Should there be? Would you be interested in a patch that implemented a
few more of the POSIX timers APIs?
KM
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