sys/times.h and mingw

[Paulo Jorge Guedes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrlicher [mailto:Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de]
> Sent: sexta-feira, 26 de Maio de 2006 10:39
> To: KDE on Windows
> Subject: Re: RE: sys/times.h and mingw
> 
> 
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:31:57 +0100
> > Von: Paulo Jorge Guedes <Paulo.Guedes at artelecom.pt>
> > An: KDE on Windows <kde-windows at kde.org>, kde-core-devel at kde.org
> > Betreff: RE: sys/times.h and mingw
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thiago Macieira [mailto:thiago at kde.org]
> > > Sent: sexta-feira, 26 de Maio de 2006 8:39
> > > To: kde-core-devel at kde.org
> > > Cc: kde-windows at kde.org; Paulo Jorge Guedes
> > > Subject: Re: sys/times.h and mingw
> > >
> > > Paulo Jorge Guedes wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >kdelibs/kabc/tests/bigread.cpp doesn't compile because of the
> > > >sys/times.h include, that doesn't exist on mingw includes neither
on
> > > >kdelibs/win/include/mingw.
> > > >
> > > >There is already any solution for this on mingw?
> > >
> > > sys/times.h declares struct tms on Linux, which is used to
determine
> > the
> > > amount of CPU time used by a child process.
> > >
> > > Is that what bigread.cpp does? If not, it's probably a typo for
time.h
> > or
> > > sys/time.h.
> >
> > It's not a typo, bigread.cpp calls times(). I don't know how much
> > times() is used across KDE though, and if we should worry with this
for
> > Windows. A quick grep shows it's only used from bigread.cpp and
> > bigwrite.cpp so I guess we can #ifdef it.
> >
> And what's the problem creating a small sys/times.h? Afaik this is
already
> there for msvc...

It's already there for mingw... what is missing is the times function
implementation for both mingw and msvc.

Paulo