Testing monotonic clock

Hasso Tepper hasso at estpak.ee
Mon Apr 7 14:10:37 PDT 2008


Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :> I would say that DragonFly is wrong.  The opengroup standards page
> :> says that only <time.h> is needed.
> :
> :OK. so, how could we fix this? Any objections to just add include to
> :<sys/time.h> into time.h? It fixes the problem problem for sure, but
> : I'm not sure about all consequences - this myriad of ifdefs etc
> :in /usr/include has been always mystery for me ;).
> :
> :--
> :Hasso Tepper
>
>     Well, sys/time.h includes sys/types.h and quite a bit of work seems
>     to have gone into restricting visibility so we might need to do a
>     little work on sys/time.h before we can include it in time.h

What scares me is that sys/time.h includes time.h :).

>     It looks like time.h only needs sys/types.h in order to get time_t.
>     time_t's real declaration is __time_t from <machine/types.h>
>     (which in turn comes from cpu/*/include/stdint.h).  Whew, what a
>     mouthful.

Well. This alone doesn't solve the problem because including just time.h 
alone from application doesn't work anyway, because:

/usr/include/time.h:135: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' 
or '__attribute__' before 'strftime'


-- 
Hasso Tepper





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