From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: george@mvista.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POSIX timer syscalls
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:15:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E67E4A1.1040900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303062306.h26N6hrd008442@napali.hpl.hp.com>
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David Mosberger wrote:
> On a related note: as far as I can see, timer_t is declared as "int"
> on all platforms (both by kernel and glibc). Yet if my reading of the
> kernel code is right, it's supposed to be "long" (and allegedly some
> standard claims that timer_t should be the "widest" integer on a
> platform).
There is no such claim, don't spread misinformation.
timer_t is just an ID. No specifics of the type are defined in the
standard. 'int' is as fine as 'long' if it is OK for the implementation.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-06 23:06 POSIX timer syscalls David Mosberger
2003-03-06 23:53 ` george anzinger
2003-03-07 1:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-07 1:39 ` george anzinger
2003-03-07 1:42 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-07 8:24 ` george anzinger
2003-03-07 10:09 ` Eric Piel
2003-03-07 12:14 ` Eric Piel
2003-03-07 18:16 ` george anzinger
2003-03-07 18:20 ` george anzinger
2003-03-07 0:15 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
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