From f7659ab23590a46d148bf47db9eb4719f3c0aeed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:31:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document that gettimeofday() is obsolescent Reported by: kaktus Reviewed by: kaktus, pstef MFC after: 3 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23942 (cherry picked from commit 4395d3ced5cfa46df400b5bb9996f9d74476997e) --- lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 b/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 index a27aecba3fc7..27149dcbeb1d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)gettimeofday.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 5/26/95 .\" -.Dd May 13, 2021 +.Dd April 24, 2024 .Dt GETTIMEOFDAY 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ .Ft int .Fn settimeofday "const struct timeval *tp" "const struct timezone *tzp" .Sh DESCRIPTION +.Em Note : +The +.Nm gettimeofday +function +.Po but not +.Nm settimeofday Pc +is obsolescent. +See the +.Sx STANDARDS +section for more details. +.Pp The system's notion of the current Greenwich time and the current time zone is obtained with the .Fn gettimeofday @@ -123,6 +134,18 @@ A user other than the super-user attempted to set the time. .Xr ctime 3 , .Xr timeradd 3 , .Xr clocks 7 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm gettimeofday +function is considered obsolescent and its usage discouraged by +.\" XXX: This should be replaced in the future when an appropriate argument to +.\" the St macro is available: -p1003.1-2017 +.No IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2017 Edition (\\(LqPOSIX.1\\(Rq) . +Application should use the +.Xr clock_gettime 2 +function instead as +.Nm gettimeofday +might be removed in the future. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn gettimeofday