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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:33:46 -0500
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Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Can't the argument be something like u64 instead of struct timespec,
> regardless of this discussion (relative vs absolute)?


Newer syscalls (ppoll, pselect) take struct timespec, which is a 
reasonable, modern form of the timeout argument...

	Jeff