Subject: Re: Beta 18 breaks gettimeofday
From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Wilkins)

26 May 1997 17:46:18 -0700
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At 10:00 AM 5/26/97 +0200, Michaela Kurz wrote:
>On Tue, 20 May 1997, Jonathan Wilkins wrote:
>
>> I have just upgraded to beta 18 and was rebuilding an application and had
>> some troubles.. after tracking things down it seems to be a problem with
>> the gettimeofday() call..  sample code follows:

>>   if(gettimeofday(tvp, NULL) != 0){
>>     printf("\n failed \n error was : %s\n", strerror(errno));
>>   } else {
>>     printf("\n worked \n tv_sec is : %i\n tv_usec is : %i", 
>>            tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec);
>>   }

in regards to this problem.. it was simply a problem with the returned
result from gettimeofday().. all other *NIX's seem to return 0 on success,
and the cygwin returns non-0 on success.. perhaps this should be changed..

		Jonathan

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