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- Submitted-From: auspex!guy@uunet.UU.NET (Guy Harris)
- From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
-
- > In this case, without the header, one of AT&T-derived or Berkeley-derived
- > systems would have "lost".
-
- Actually, BSD being an AT&T-derived system, things aren't that bad.
-
- BSD still has the original V7-flavored "utime()" call, with the second
- argument a pointer to the first element of an array of 2 "time_t"s
- (that's right, "utime()" in BSD has no microseconds-field support).
-
- Somewhere in the "USG UNIX" chain, the structure was introduced; on most
- systems, the structure has the same memory layout as the array.
-
- 4.2BSD introduced a call named "utimes()" - note the "s" - that takes a
- pointer to an array of 2 "struct timeval"s; that's the call that
- supports microseconds fields. Too bad the 88Open folks didn't pay
- attention to this, and just called their call that supported
- microseconds fields "utime()"....
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 12
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