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Re: 1.5.19: timeval struct not correct defined
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:06:11 +0100
- Subject: Re: 1.5.19: timeval struct not correct defined
- References: <02c301c62f3d$4600b5c0$c100020a@jw2500>
- Reply-to: 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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