futimens: Ducument why we need manual hidden_proto

Also, remove unneeded __need_timespec (It cuts off a tiny bit of
work for CPP but is of course not strictly needed).

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/futimens.c b/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/futimens.c
index 090dfa69c..32b21395b 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/futimens.c
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/futimens.c
@@ -8,9 +8,14 @@
  */
 
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
-#define __need_timespec
 #include <time.h>
 #ifdef __NR_utimensat
+/* To avoid superfluous warnings about passing NULL to the non-null annotated
+ * 2nd param "__path" below, we bypass inclusion of sys/stat.h and use
+ * a non annotated, local decl.
+ * Note that due to not including the header, we have to alias the call
+ * manually.
+ */
 extern int utimensat (int __fd, __const char *__path,
 	__const struct timespec __times[2],
 	int __flags) __THROW;