coreutils/date.c with FEATURE_DATE_NANO=y broken?

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com
Sun Jun 20 09:04:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:55:27AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > -		clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
> > +		/* libc has incredibly messy way of doing this,
> > +		 * typically requiring -lrt. We just skip all this mess */
> > +		syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
>
> This patch works for me, portability concerns notwithstanding. It shouldn't
> be a big deal to have the build system test for -lrt in exactly the same
> way as as -lm. Doing syscalls directly makes me nervous.

Ditto.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian


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