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Re: Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > That's a gratuitous incompatibility with the existing standards (see Rich
> > Felker passim, e.g. bug 16437).
>
> In the specific case of tv_nsec, I am so convinced that the bare
> 'long' is a bug in the standards that I think we should just go ahead
> and introduce nsec_t unilaterally. I am 100% serious.
If it were clear there would have been more interest (than none) in such a
change when it was raised with the Austin Group.
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