Re: [PATCH v2 01/23] man/man2/clock_getres.2: HISTORY: Update first POSIX appearance of clock_* syscalls

[Seth McDonald <sethmcmail@pm.me>]

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Hi Alex and Mark,

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 at 16:38:38 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Mark, Seth,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 07:37:33PM -0800, Mark Harris wrote:
> > Seth McDonald wrote:
> > >
> > > clock_getres(2), clock_gettime(2), and clock_settime(2) first appeared
> > > in POSIX.1-1996.[1]  SUSv2 incorporates POSIX.1-1996, so listing both is
> > > redundant.
> > 
> > Technically these functions came from POSIX.1b (1003.1b-1993), which
> > was a set of optional realtime extensions to POSIX, published as a
> > separate document.  POSIX.1-1996 integrated them into the main
> > standard (1003.1-1996) as part of a Timers extension.  In 1997 X/Open
> > adopted them to SUSv2 as part of their own X/Open Realtime extension,
> > which includes the POSIX Timers extension and other extensions that
> > had been added to POSIX from POSIX.1b.
> 
> Thanks!  For now, I think I'll take the patch, even if the commit
> message is factually incorrect.  We can then do a future round of
> patches researching those less common POSIX extension standard.

Good to know.  I'll be sure to phrase my patch descriptions more
carefully from now on to prevent such inaccuracies.

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Take care,
	Seth McDonald.

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