Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:11:08 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 16:32 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Joe Korty wrote: > > > > When you convert a user time to kernel time you can > > > automatically validate > > > > Kernel time sucks. It is just a single clock, it may not have > > the attributes of the clock that the user really wished to use. > > Wrong. The kernel time is simple and effective for almost all users. > We are talking about _timeouts_ here, what fancy "attributes" does that > need that are just not overkill?
Or rather, posix timers ?
Daniel
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