[LinuxPPS] Changing the syscalls

[clemens at dwf.com]

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:50:28PM -0600, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > 
> > So not knowing what time_t looks like, I would agree with your solution
> > of using something better behaved for the transmission from user/kernel.
> > My initial assumption would be that a long int would be appropriate, that
> > should take care of times for a while... (well 100 years)...
> 
> Linux gurus suggested to me using __u32 or __u64 which are fixed data
> types across different architectures and avoiding in using long which
> is not fixed while passing from 32 to 64 bits.
> 
> I think better choise with an easy implementation for both
> architectures could be:
> 
> 	struct pps_timespec {
> 		__u32 sec;
> 		__u32 nsec;
> 	};
> 
> These structure is suitable for both 32 and 64 bits.
> 
I agree.

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                                        Reg.Clemens
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