On Tue, 7 Dec 2021, наб via Libc-alpha wrote: > Looking through "timespec" on Aardvark for prior art reveals nothing, > except for a likely resolution to any proposal of this sort: > > Although we agree that it would have been better if these functions had > > been designed this way to begin with, we believe that making the change > > now will break existing, conforming code with no real benefit. Geoff Clare said (austin-group-l, Thu, 29 May 2014 16:20:22 +0100): C11 requires tv_nsec to be type long, which means that if we change it to be a new snseconds_t type in Issue 8, we would have to require that snseconds_t is defined as long in order not to conflict with C11. and Rich Felker (Thu, 29 May 2014 13:08:59 -0400): This is just a linux kernel bug which needs to be fixed. They have a number of other such bugs in x32 too. It's possible to work around it in userspace on the library side (we do this in musl libc) but it's a bit costly/painful and glibc does not do so yet. There's an open bug for it which I filed: and I don't see any other responses in that discussion. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
