Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:47:53 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification |
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:32:49PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Joe Korty wrote:
> > 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?
The name should be changed from 'struct timeout' to something like 'struct timeevent'.
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