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- From: Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com>
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- (More to "is struct utimbuf...")
-
- Don Lewine's posting reminded me (I can't remember EVERYTHING) about
- the issue of additional fields in structures. All my comments in my
- previous posting stand, but apply primarily to structures that are
- filled in (at least initially) by the system. For ones that are
- sent to the system, created from "nowhere", there is an additional
- problem, that of "how can a portable application know to/how to
- initialize additional (vendor-defined) fields?".
-
- The solution in the 1990 revision is to prohibit additional fields
- for the structures like that. (A vendor is then required to provide
- a new call to set microseconds, or whatever.)
-
- It was agreed that this was not the most desireable solution, but it
- was the only one that worked.
-
- Donn Terry
- Same disclaimer.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 10
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