Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Joe Korty wrote:

> > When you convert a user time to kernel time you can
> > automatically validate
> 
> 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?

bye, Roman
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