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Re: test(1)/find(1) time comparison with timespec



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<CADbF7ecz5+g_eZR2vHA=0_13ewcscKCJc4arZgp=Y97G_U3m4w%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Masao Uebayashi  <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Antoine LECA 
><antoine.leca.1%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Masao Uebayashi wrote:
>>> Use timespec (st_mtimespec) [...]
>>
>> This is not related with your point, but the official POSIX name is now
>> st_mtim; meanwhile the type is unchanged at struct timespec.
>>
>> Of course both are equated in the headers, so actually this is
>> pointless. I do not know if it is important to align the source with the
>> Standard here, or not. But I wanted everybody to be informed about this
>> and not overview just because one did not know about the Standard.
>
>Thanks for the notice.  I was aware of the standard names and
>#define's in sys/stat.h.  I chose st_mtimespec (and others) as other
>NetBSD sources do .  It seems that the standard ones (st_mtim and
>others) are not yet used in NetBSD base.

Yes, these are fairly new. The guidance should be to use the standard
names in new code and migrate old code to them.

christos



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