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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:52:44 -0800
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I think we have lived with relative timeouts for so long, it would be=
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> unusual to change now.  select(2), poll(2), epoll_wait(2) all take=20
> relative timeouts.

I'm not talking about always using absolute timeouts.

I'm saying the timeout parameter should be a struct timespec* and then=20
the flags word could have a flag meaning "this is an absolute timeout".=
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  I.e., enable both uses,, even make relative timeouts the default.=20
This is what the modern POSIX interfaces do, too, see clock_nanosleep.

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