From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, george@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:53:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050901135311.GC1753@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509011119580.3728@scrub.home>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:22:32AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> For a timeout? Please get real.
> If you need more precision, use a dedicated timer API, but don't make the
> general case more complex for the 99.99% of other users.
Struct timeout is just a struct timespec + a bit for absolute/relative +
a field for clock specification. What's so complex about that? It captures
everything needed to specify time, from here to the end of time.
Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-01 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-31 23:24 FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-08-31 23:50 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 0:08 ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-01 9:22 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 13:53 ` Joe Korty [this message]
2005-09-01 13:50 ` Joe Korty
2005-09-01 14:32 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 15:10 ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-01 15:11 ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-01 15:47 ` Joe Korty
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-01 11:59 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-09-01 12:55 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 0:00 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-09-01 9:19 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 13:48 ` Joe Korty
2005-09-01 15:18 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-31 23:17 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-08-31 22:15 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-08-31 23:01 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-31 22:11 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-08-31 23:06 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-08-31 20:55 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-08-31 21:15 ` Joe Korty
2005-08-31 21:20 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-08-31 21:34 ` Joe Korty
2005-08-31 22:06 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-08-31 22:10 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-23 1:13 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-05-18 20:15 Joe Korty
2005-07-29 1:52 ` FW: " Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-08-22 22:56 ` john stultz
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