Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:32:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification |
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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?
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