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0 pointsxboxnolifes1y ago0 comments

It'll still be a problem for code that relies on time being 64-bit int of nanoseconds. How do you change the internal representation here without also breaking the API contract for application code?

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re1y ago

The kernel does not have an API that exposes that representation to user code; system calls operate on timespec structs

  struct timespec {
        time_t   tv_sec;        /* seconds */
        long     tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
  };

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0 pointsxboxnolifes1y ago0 comments

It'll still be a problem for code that relies on time being 64-bit int of nanoseconds. How do you change the internal representation here without also breaking the API contract for application code?

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re1y ago

The kernel does not have an API that exposes that representation to user code; system calls operate on timespec structs

  struct timespec {
        time_t   tv_sec;        /* seconds */
        long     tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
  };

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