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Re: glibc 2.29: Reminder, only ~3 weeks to freeze!
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Is there going to be a new kernel version of struct timeval at all (as
> > opposed to the new versions of timeval-using kernel/userspace interfaces
> > using the 64-bit version of struct timespec)?
>
> Not sure about the kernel indeed.
>
> But what about existing user code which calls public glibc interfaces
> which deal with struct timeval? So far there is the assumption that
Those get new 64-bit versions as usual. The question is whether the
struct timeval for them is purely a userspace choice (because struct
rusage etc. kernel interfaces get new versions using timespec not timeval)
or whether it's something to keep in sync with the kernel.
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