Re: no updates in statusbar meters

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:04:03AM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2007-06-20, Joerg van den Hoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > not that this would get the clock running, though...
> 
> They could start by stopping to claim that it is there. All the
> documentation I have found says either that a) _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK
> is defined when CLOCK_MONOTONIC is available, or b) must be defined
> to the value 200112L (or so). I'd prefer the latter (since it's a
> POSIX version check too), but glibc is also crapware, and the header
> /usr/include/bits/posix_opt.h simply defines:
> 
> /* The monotonic clock might be available.  */ 
> #define _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK  0
> 
> Note the moronic "might".
> 
> But, oh, in the world of FOSS herdware it is _forbidden_ for things to
> work just like that: you're supposed to use autocrap scripts (broken
> and unmaintainable themselves) to test for every possible form of brain
> damage the author of some other piece of software -- and distributors --
> might be suffering from.
> 
> -- 
> Tuomo
> 
yes. but would/could you integrate pierre's patch nevertheless (for the time
being, that is: I've heard that apple promises major improvements w.r.t. POSIX
compliance and such with the next major OS upgrade -- which, on the other hand,
needs not to be true, of course)?

joerg