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From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>,
	 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	 GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	 Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	macro@wdc.com, Zong Li <zongbox@gmail.com>,
	 Zong Li <zong@andestech.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 07/20] sysdeps/gettimeofday: Use clock_gettime64 if avaliable
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:21:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKCAbMiQuPbX1RK24jStZRyXuueaMMFOUjWSU+JS+Lrtssk0Xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ec24dc5-ca74-82cd-5116-c6d76688765f@cs.ucla.edu>

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:03 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > If we want to keep
> > the traditional settimeofday()/gettimeofday() behavior working, a new
> > kernel interface could be added
>
> Let's not. That behavior was a bad idea even in the 1980s, and applications
> stopped using it decades ago. It has been completely obsoleted by TZ strings.

Do we think we could get away with having both functions fail (with
EINVAL) whenever the tz argument is non-null?

zw

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-25 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-25  0:08 [RFC v2 00/20] RISC-V glibc port for the 32-bit Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:08 ` [RFC v2 01/20] y2038: Introduce internal for glibc struct __timespec64 Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:08 ` [RFC v2 02/20] y2038: Provide conversion helpers for " Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:08 ` [RFC v2 03/20] y2038: linux: Provide __clock_settime64 implementation Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 11:05   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 15:51     ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-25 16:39       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-26  9:07         ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-26 12:36           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-26 15:03             ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-26 15:11               ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-26 22:49                 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27  7:14                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-27  7:36                     ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-26 18:58               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-26 22:55                 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27  7:45                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27 10:35                     ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27 13:32                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27 14:07                         ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27 14:57                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27 15:23                             ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27 15:45                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27 16:16                                 ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27 21:25                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27 22:08                                     ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-04  0:04                                       ` Alistair Francis
2019-07-04  8:13                                         ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-08  9:32                                           ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-06-27 20:08                           ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-27 21:02                             ` Lukasz Majewski
2019-07-08 10:49         ` Joseph Myers
2019-06-25  0:08 ` [RFC v2 04/20] include/time.h: Fix conflicting timespec types on 32-bit Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 11:17   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 22:20     ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:08 ` [RFC v2 05/20] sysdeps/nanosleep: Use clock_nanosleep_time64 if avaliable Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  8:24   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-25  8:59   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-26 18:20     ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 06/20] sysdeps/futex: Use futex_time64 " Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 11:14   ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 11:26     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-25 11:41       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 12:06         ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 13:32           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 07/20] sysdeps/gettimeofday: Use clock_gettime64 " Alistair Francis
2019-06-27 13:14   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-07-03 23:49     ` Alistair Francis
2019-07-24 20:22   ` Joseph Myers
2019-07-24 23:00     ` Alistair Francis
2019-07-25 12:57       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-25 17:03         ` Paul Eggert
2019-07-25 17:21           ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2019-07-25 18:53             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-26 13:01               ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-26 13:08                 ` Zack Weinberg
2019-07-25 21:23       ` Joseph Myers
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 08/20] sysdeps/wait: Use waitid " Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  8:16   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-25 10:55   ` Zack Weinberg
2019-06-25 11:06     ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 12:00       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 12:10         ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 13:29           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 13:39             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 13:47               ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 14:04                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 14:08                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 14:21                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 14:29                       ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-26 14:37                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-26 15:48                           ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-26 16:28                             ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-08 12:09                               ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-08 12:34                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-08 12:36                                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-09 22:57                                     ` Alistair Francis
2019-07-10  7:33                                       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-10 17:47                                         ` Alistair Francis
2019-07-25 15:49                                     ` Joseph Myers
2019-06-26 21:08                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27  7:33                               ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-27  8:25                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-27 10:21                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-27 11:12                                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-27 15:24                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-03 23:50                                       ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 23:51         ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 09/20] sysdeps/getrlimit: Use prlimit64 " Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 11:11   ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 20:45     ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 21:10       ` Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 23:38         ` Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 10/20] Documentation for the RISC-V 32-bit port Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 11/20] RISC-V: Use 64-bit time_t and off_t for RV32 and RV64 Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 12/20] RISC-V: Support dynamic loader for the 32-bit Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 13/20] RISC-V: Add path of library directories " Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 14/20] RISC-V: The ABI implementation " Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 15/20] RISC-V: Hard float support for the 32 bit Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 16/20] RISC-V: Regenerate ULPs of RISC-V Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 17/20] RISC-V: Add ABI lists Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 18/20] RISC-V: Build Infastructure for the 32-bit Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 19/20] RISC-V: Fix llrint and llround missing exceptions on RV32 Alistair Francis
2019-06-25  0:09 ` [RFC v2 20/20] Add RISC-V 32-bit target to build-many-glibcs.py Alistair Francis
2019-06-25 11:15 ` [RFC v2 00/20] RISC-V glibc port for the 32-bit Florian Weimer
2019-06-25 12:07   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-04  8:47 ` Jim Wilson

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