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Re: PATCH [3/n]: Add __snseconds_t and __SNSECONDS_T_TYPE
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:56:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH [3/n]: Add __snseconds_t and __SNSECONDS_T_TYPE
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On 04/11/2012 09:47 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> But if everyone is agreed that departing from POSIX here, or having POSIX
> changed, is a somewhat likely outcome, then the change can go in.
I'm agreed. I was persuaded by the argument that the change is not likely to
affect real code; I looked prety hard and found just one example of real code that
would be affected, in an obsolete version of a GNU utility that did something
like "&x.tm_nsec".
I think that if a push is made to change POSIX, the change would be accepted.