Re: [PATCH] CPU-time clocks

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 05/16/2011 01:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 15 14:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 13:49 -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > > I have a patch pending for Cygwin to support POSIX CPU-time clocks, but
> > > newlib needs to be patched first.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, newlib's clock ID definitions are not POSIX-compliant;
> > > the names are missing the ending "_ID".  Fixing this will affect RTEMS,
> > > as they have been using the misnamed definitions for some time.  I have
> > > a patch for RTEMS' CVS HEAD, but the ramifications may be larger than
> > > that, I don't know.
> > >
> > > Patch attached.
>
> Thanks.  Maybe we should just define CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME and
> CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME for rtems as well.  So the rtems maintainers
> can decide when this can go away:

RTEMS prefers to stay in-line with POSIX.

I.e. a radical switch from *_CPUTIME_ID for RTEMS would be OK with me.

Ralf