[PATCH 2/2] clock_nanosleep.2, nanosleep.2: Use 'duration' rather than 'request'

Alejandro Colomar alx@kernel.org
Tue Mar 5 01:11:39 GMT 2024


On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 04:56:13PM -0800, enh wrote:
> > > int clock_nanosleep(clockid_t __clock, int __flags, const struct
> > > timespec* _Nonnull __time, struct timespec* _Nullable __remainder);
> >
> > Hmmmm, that's the best name, meaningfully, I think.  But I've been
> > trying to avoid it.  I don't like using names of standard functions in
> > identifiers; it might confuse.  As an alternative, I thought of 't'.
> > What do you think?
> 
> as you can see, i've taken the "the leading `__` means we get to
> trample whatever we like" approach :-)
> 
> (we build bionic with hidden visibility and an explicit list of
> symbols for the linker to export, so we'd have to be trying quite hard
> to trip over ourselves.)

Yeah, I was worried about the manual page  :)


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