[PATCH 00/12] Y2038 preparation: use clock_[gs]ettime to implement the other time-getting and -setting functions

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Tue Aug 20 15:21:00 GMT 2019


On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:10 AM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > Finally, there is a case for demoting ftime and stime to compatibility
> > symbols and removing their public prototypes (for ftime, we would stop
> > installing <sys/timeb.h> altogether).
>
> Yes, I think that would make sense.  If we do that, we don't then need to
> add any _TIME_BITS=64 support for those functions.

OK, I will add a patch to this branch that does that.  (The changes
already made to those functions in this patchset are still necessary,
since we will need to keep the implementations around.)

zw



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