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SubjectRe: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer functions to return higher accuracy)
>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:28:39 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> said:

Christoph> Right. I had it named getnstimeofday before but the
Christoph> feeling was that the patch should not introduce a new
Christoph> name. Any approach that would allow progress on the issue
Christoph> would be fine with me.

Just to avoid further confusion: I wasn't objecting to the name, I was
suggesting that do_gettimeofday() should instead use timespec.

Christoph> do_gettimeofday is used all over the linux kernel for a
Christoph> variety of purposes and lots of code depends on the
Christoph> presence of a timeval struct.

Which is true...

--david
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