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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-07-21 15:33:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-07-21 15:33:55 +0200 |
| commit | 8042eca2fb8edc41c20c225cce6bfae143e055ed (patch) | |
| tree | d853dde61efdcd5ced71386ac7d6084c088aab44 /man7 | |
| parent | 3316dc71809dcc815703d93cb046c34c23881a97 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-8042eca2fb8edc41c20c225cce6bfae143e055ed.tar.gz | |
timespec.3type, system_data_types.7: Move timespec to a separate page
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/system_data_types.7 | 64 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 64 deletions
diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7 index 078debd0a1..491fe884eb 100644 --- a/man7/system_data_types.7 +++ b/man7/system_data_types.7 @@ -456,70 +456,6 @@ POSIX.1-2001 and later. .BR timer_settime (2) .RE .\"------------------------------------- timespec ---------------------/ -.TP -.I timespec -.RS -.IR Include : -.IR <time.h> . -Alternatively, -.IR <aio.h> , -.IR <mqueue.h> , -.IR <sched.h> , -.IR <signal.h> , -.IR <sys/select.h> , -or -.IR <sys/stat.h> . -.PP -.EX -struct timespec { - time_t tv_sec; /* Seconds */ - long tv_nsec; /* Nanoseconds [0 .. 999999999] */ -}; -.EE -.PP -Describes times in seconds and nanoseconds. -.PP -.IR "Conforming to" : -C11 and later; POSIX.1-2001 and later. -.PP -.IR Bugs : -Under glibc, -.I tv_nsec -is the -.I syscall -long, though this affects only fringe architectures like X32, -which is ILP32, but uses the LP64 AMD64 syscall ABI. -In reality, the field ends up being defined as: -.PP -.in +4 -.EX -#if __x86_64__ && __ILP32__ /* == x32 */ - long long tv_nsec; -#else - long tv_nsec; -#endif -.EE -.in -.PP -This is a long-standing and long-enshrined -.UR https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16437 -glibc bug -.I #16437 -.UE , -and an incompatible extension to the standards; -however, as even a 32-bit -.I long -can hold the entire -.I tv_nsec -range, it's always safe to forcibly down-cast it to the standard type. -.PP -.IR "See also" : -.BR clock_gettime (2), -.BR clock_nanosleep (2), -.BR nanosleep (2), -.BR timerfd_gettime (2), -.BR timer_gettime (2) -.RE .\"------------------------------------- timeval ----------------------/ .\"------------------------------------- uid_t ----------------------/ .\"------------------------------------- uintmax_t --------------------/ |