David Tribble (via Markus Kuhn) wrote:
11. TIME_PROCESS and TIME_THREAD fill a definite need, a la the times() call of POSIX. However, there is no way to ascertain the total elapsed CPU time for *child* processes. Perhaps a TIME_PROCESS_CHILDREN?
Does ISO C now have a notion of processes or threads, or children?
12. There ought to be a way to retrieve information for the local timezone. The definition of tz_prep() states that a null argument returns information about "some externally defined default timezone". A better definition would return information about "the local timezone, possibly determined from some external source (such as the program execution environment)".
The objection here is "Local to whom"? The physical location of a computer is becoming less and less significant. If I'm in Alabama, do I care what a server in Georgia (the Republic of) thinks "the" time is? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)