[RFC v2 07/20] sysdeps/gettimeofday: Use clock_gettime64 if avaliable

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Thu Jul 25 17:03:00 GMT 2019


Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> If we want to keep
> the traditional settimeofday()/gettimeofday() behavior working, a new
> kernel interface could be added

Let's not. That behavior was a bad idea even in the 1980s, and applications 
stopped using it decades ago. It has been completely obsoleted by TZ strings.



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