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From: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] system_data_types.7: wfix
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:32:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cff41318-06f2-af10-747c-2a0ed1e70e84@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d201c89-8c47-8487-3672-b9af39c1bf2d@gmail.com>

Hello Michael,

On 2020-09-18 22:27, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> -Describes times in seconds and microseconds.
>> +Describes elapsed time in seconds and microseconds.
>>   .IP
>>   Conforming to: POSIX.1-2001 and later.
>>   .IP
> 
> I don;t think this patch is correct. At the least, it needs
> more explanation. As far as I can see, 'timespec' is not just
> about elapsed time. It really is just time, expressed as secs +
> nanosecs. For example, see utimensat(2), which set file timestamps
> with nanosec precision.

I took that wording from timeval.3bsd. But I think you're correct.

> 
> For the moment, I'm not applying this (and I hope not doing so
> doesn't break any following patch).

That's fine.  It shouldn't break anything.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 


Cheers,

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18 12:45 [PATCH 0/4] Document regoff_t (and a few minor patches) Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] system_data_types.7: wfix Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 20:27   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18 21:32     ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] system_data_types.7: Document regoff_t Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 20:30   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] regoff_t.3: New link to new documented type in system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 20:31   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] system_data_types.7: srcfix: Add FIXME notes Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 20:32   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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