Re: Updating callout_reset

From: Mike Silbersack (silby_at_silby.com)
Date: 01/26/04

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    Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:42:44 -0600 (CST)
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

    > No, not timespec.
    >
    > Timespecs are stupid, slow, clumsy and unhandy and cumbersome.
    >
    > With a timespec you either need an MPunsafe hack function like
    > libevents evConsTime() or a local stack variable.
    >
    > Make it a 64bit count of nanoseconds instead that way it can be
    > used as a literal constant.
    >
    > It's OK with me if we want to have a function to contain the "*
    > 1000000000LL" factor for us, and maybe even convenience functions
    > for milli and microseconds.
    >
    > --
    > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20

    Ah, that would work better. I guess this getting ideas reviewed process
    does help. :)

    Do we have a preexisting name for the "64bit nanoseconds" type?

    Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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