Posix compliant cpu clocks V6 [2/3]: Glibc patch

Martijn Sipkema martijn@entmoot.nl
Wed Oct 6 13:36:00 GMT 2004


From: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@redhat.com>
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> The following patch makes glibc not provide the above clocks and use the
>> kernel clocks instead if either of the following condition is met:
>
> Did you ever hear about a concept called binary compatiblity?  Don't
> bother working on any glibc patch.

The functionality should arguably not have been added to glibc in the first
place since its implementation was incorrect.

--ms




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