Re: 1.5.19: timeval struct not correct defined

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 11 19:59, Johnny Willemsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In sys/time.h the timeval struct is defined as:
> 
> struct timeval {
>   long tv_sec;
>   long tv_usec;
> };
> 
> It should be 
> 
> struct timeval {
>   time_t tv_sec;
>   suseconds_t tv_usec;
> };
> 
> See the following link for the opengroup standard
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/systime.h.html
> 
> The type suseconds_t and useconds_t are also not there with Cygwin

useconds_t is defined in sys/types.h, though as signed type, not as
unsigned type as proposed by SUSv3.

As for the other types, I'll prepare a patch for newlib's header files.


Thanks,
Corinna

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