l_fp, time, calendar
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Mar 25 23:26:40 UTC 2017
Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net>:
> Also, don't count on timespec suddenly switching to a 64-bit time_t. For
> compatibility reasons, I expect that at least some platforms will have
> both a "struct timespec" and a "struct timespec64" for some transitional
> period. Avoiding timespec for internal use lets issues of that form be
> confined to the OS interface, rather than spread through the code.
This is not what is actually happening out there. Modern Unixes on
64-bit machines have already moved to 64-bit timespec members long
since.
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