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Re: [RFC v2 07/20] sysdeps/gettimeofday: Use clock_gettime64 if avaliable

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>, Alistair Francis <alistair23 at gmail dot com>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Alistair Francis <alistair dot francis at wdc dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at sifive dot com>, macro at wdc dot com, Zong Li <zongbox at gmail dot com>, Zong Li <zong at andestech dot com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:03:43 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 07/20] sysdeps/gettimeofday: Use clock_gettime64 if avaliable
References: <cover.1561421042.git.alistair.francis@wdc.com> <cb015d0d1d29e4b948c7118c5b12ff2bed83a6ec.1561421042.git.alistair.francis@wdc.com> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1907242013260.2807@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <CAKmqyKP1EGAqQE+vvOH=wp5dp+YH=GofLTniU_wFeLT4BDp4oQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAK8P3a0f-N6DsjjBAvY-Y3sza703fYe55h7pVzhvZXGEqe7G-Q@mail.gmail.com>

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 applicationsstopped using it decades ago. It has been completely obsoleted by TZ strings.

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