Re: a proposed callout API

In message <20061128231010.cbdc4e1d.rnsanchez@xxxxxxxxx>, Ricardo Nabinger Sanc
hez writes:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:31:18 -0500
John Baldwin <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I had intended on using microseconds
with a negative value indicating a relative timeout (so an 'uptime'
timeout, i.e. trigger X us from now) and a positive value indicating an
absolute timeout (time_t-ish, and subject to ntp changes).

Just some devil's advocate thoughts...

What are the advantages of encoding some semantic in one or two bits of the
argument, instead of passing another word with flags?

The bits _will_ go in the flags argument I proposed.

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