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From uucp@tic.com Fri Aug 3 14:16:12 1990
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From: <Don_Lewine@dgc.ceo.dg.com>
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Subject: struct utimbuf
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From: Don_Lewine@dgc.ceo.dg.com
I hate to point this out but the 4-entry utimbuf is a Motorola
invention. The microseconds fields were added as part of the 88open
BCS [over the objections of some members of the committee] as an
"extension".
It was this extension that got POSIX.1a to declare that the struct
utimbuf must contain ONLY the members indicated. The 88open ABI goes
back to the SVID compatible, POSIX conforming 2 member structure.
-- Don Lewine
uunet!dg!lewine
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 3