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'.

Joe
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