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SubjectRe: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
On 08/31/2011 10:19 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I think tv_nsec was just overlooked, and people thought "it has no
> legacy users that were 'int', so we'll just leave it at 'long', which
> is guaranteed to be enough for nanoseconds that only needs a range of
> 32 bits".
>
> In contrast, tv_usec probably *does* have legacy users that are "int".
>
> So POSIX almost certainly only looked backwards, and never thought
> about users who would need to make it "long long" for compatibility
> reasons.
>
> The fact that *every*other*related*field* in POSIX/SuS has a typedef
> exactly for these kinds of reasons just shows how stupid that "long
> tv_nsec" thing is.
>
> I suspect that on Linux we can just say "tv_nsec" is suseconds_t too.
> Then we can make time_t and suseconds_t just match, and be "__s64" on
> all new platforms.
>

Let me see if I can raise this with the POSIX committee.

-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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