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From: aslam@lums.edu.pk (Sohail Aslam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: struct timespec (in sys/time.h) fields: ts_ or tv_
Date: 27 Oct 1996 12:53:46 +0500
Organization: Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
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Message-ID: <54v4ea$o0h@chenab.lums.edu.pk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: chenab.lums.edu.pk
I doenloaded MIT's pthreads package (thanks to pointer by Bill Kish
<kish@browncow.com>) and tried to compile under FreeBSD 2.1. The compile
failed on one of the files that uses "struct timespec" from <sys/time.h>.
I read through the bug report maintained by MIT and found a note on this.
Here is what how the note reads:
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Re: Compiling Pthreads to FreeBSD-2.1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fri Oct 25 01:24:27 1996 )
Reply-To: proven@cygnus.com
To: Aredis Sebastiao de Oliveira <aredis@obelix.unicamp.br>
Cc: pthreads-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:57:02 -0200."
<199610242157.TAA14143@obelix.unicamp.br>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 01:21:17 -0400
From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@proven.org>
In the system provided header files find the declaration of struct timespec
and change ts_sec to tv_sec and ts_nsec to tv_nsec. FreeBSD has it declared
wrong.
CAP
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The file time.h has ts_ for timespec and tv_ for timeval. I don't think
this is just a typo; the timespec fields are referenced in stat.h,
nfs/xdr_subs.h and ufs/ufs/inode.h. I don't have the POSIX standards with
me. Should I change the system .h files or the pthreads source files? I
would prefer the latter.
--
Sohail Aslam
Department of Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Lahore, Pakistan tel: 92-42-572-2670 fax: 92-42-572-2591
email: aslam@lums.edu.pk