Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:31:03 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] aio-core for 2.5.29 (Re: async-io API registration for 2.5.29) |
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:25:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I seriously doubt that people really care _that_ much about a precise time source for aio timeouts, and we should spend more time on making it efficient and easy to use than on worrying about the precision. People who do care can fall back to gettimeofday() and try to correct for it that way.
In that case define the time to be approximate and nothing more.
The reason for the original suggestion was it seem feasible in the future the syscall could be used for other purposes (multimedia synchornisation) *and* be of value if made more precise without adding yet another syscall at a later stage to do just this.
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