[PATCH][BZ #14450] Fix timeval example in manual
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@redhat.com
Tue Dec 11 03:07:00 GMT 2012
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:48:38PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Why do we need such hairy code in the example?
> The timersub macro in sys/time.h is far simpler.
Actually I just noticed that the fix is wrong and the original
behaviour is correct. The reporter (and I) looked at timeval as
tv_sec.tv_usec when it should be tv_sec + tv_usec/1000000. They have
different semantics when tv_sec is negative.
Siddhesh
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