Re: POSIX defines struct timeval in <sys/types.h>

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/5/21 10:57 AM, Ori Sky Farrell wrote:
> I've discovered a gap in POSIX compliance in lib/sh/strftime.c on the devel 
> branch. POSIX mandates that the timeval struct be defined in <sys/time.h>, 
> although as can be seen on Line 67 of the file in question, the file is only 
> included here if the tm struct -- which POSIX mandates be defined in <time.h> 
> -- is defined in <sys/time.h>.

It's interesting that your libc implementation claims POSIX conformity with
respect to this:

> The libc implementation I'm working with defines timeval in <sys/time.h> and 
> tm in <time.h> as mandated by POSIX so here I encounter a compile failure on 
> Line 193.

and yet does not include the POSIX-required strftime().

I'll look at the <sys/time.h> and <time.h> issues.


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