Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] Posix timespec support?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-06 02:09:37

Terry G wrote:
> Does date_time support POSIX timespec?

Nope.

> I assume that timespec is standard POSIX.  Is it not?
> If so, is it supported now, or how should it be supported.
> I'd be willing to help.

I guess the question is, what do you mean by 'supported'.  Date time uses 
timeval (that's 'val' not 'spec') under the hood on posix platforms to 
implement microsecond_clock, but doesn't directly expose timeval in the 
interface.   The higher resolution interfaces supported by timespec seem to 
NOT be implemented many places.  So really, I can't see what timespec brings 
for people trying to write portable code. So, what did you have in mind for 
'support'?

Jeff