Duration.toTimeVal ? (following deprecation from 2.066)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 02:46:11 UTC, Timothee Cour via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Timothee Cour 
> <thelastmammoth at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This used to work prior to 2.066 (rc):
>> Duration t;
>> auto tv=timeval(t.total!"seconds",t.fracSec.usecs);
>> now it works but with:
>> Deprecation: function core.time.Duration.fracSec is deprecated 
>> - Please
>> use split instead.
>>
>> I see there's a SysTime.toTimeVal but there's no 
>> Duration.toTimeVal.
>> Shouldn't there be?
>> What would be the new recommended implementation?
>> Also, I think deprecation messages could be more precise, 
>> telling exactly
>> how to make the change instead of telling you the function 
>> name.
>>
>>
> is this correct?
>     int secs,usecs;
>     timeout.split!("seconds","usecs")(secs,usecs);
>     auto tv=timeval(secs,usecs);
> specifically, I'm not sure about the type 'int'.

Technically, timeval is

struct timeval
{
     time_t      tv_sec;
     suseconds_t tv_usec;
}

so tv_sec is 64-bits on a 64-bit system, though you'd probably 
get away with using an int. Regardless, I'd suggest doing this:

timeval tv;
timeout.split!("seconds, "usecs")(tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec);

since then you don't have to care what integral type they are.

- Jonathan M Davis