Why doesn't mktspec() use clock_gettime?

[Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d]

On 01/10/2015 08:16 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:17:49 -0800
> Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/9/15 6:13 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 02:03:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> cc Sean Kelly
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/core/sync/config.d#L28
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks like that use has been disable with static if (false). What was
>>>> the reason?
>>>>
>>>> A coworker spent a few hours debugging a matter that pointed to this
>>>> issue. He removed the "false" and replaced CLOCK_REALTIME with
>>>> CLOCK_MONOTONIC in our druntime tree.
>>>>
>>>> Any insight into the matter? How should we address it by supporting
>>>> multiple clock types portably?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/998739c
>>
>> Thanks. What library would that be? Is it unavailable on some platforms?
>> If always available, couldn't we just link with it? -- Andrei
> on older GNU/Linux systems it requires -lrt. it doesn't with relatively
> new glibc (something that is 1.5 year old is ok, AFAIR), and i see no
> reasons to be conservative here, but...
>

And on Linux we already link with librt anyway.

-- 
Mike Wey