Re: Q: nanoseconds

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Jan 1999 18:34:08 GMT

Followup to: <88990C47DD1@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
By author: "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> What could be done now is to implement these POSIX.4 functions in the C
> library, simply upscaling microseconds to nanoseconds.
>
> Alternatively the kernel could do the same thing providing new syscalls.
>

The kernel should provide syscalls; Linux has already started to
migrate to nanoseconds with nanosleep() et al, so it seems to right
thing to do.

I don't think it would be a problem switching to nanoseconds for the
kernel, and have the legacy system calls do the conversion.

-hpa

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