On Dec 01, 2005, at 19:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:15 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Heh, in my dumb non-native speaker mind I'd expectit the other way
around, as in a timeout is expected to time out :) and a timer is
expect to happen, as in say the timer the tells you your breakfast
egg is ready.
Which is perfectly the point Kyle made.
In any case, the real important note here is that the two are pretty
different concepts, ones that lend themselves to _very_ different
optimizations, that are currently lumped together. The very fact
that some developers easily get them confused says that we need a
good clean implementation of both distinct APIs with comparable
documentation, including a bunch of good example usages.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you
looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
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