Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

[Arjan van de Ven]

> 
> Actually the hrsleep() function would allow for submillisecond sleeps, 
> which might be what some of the 450 users really want and they only use
> msleep(1) because it's the next best thing.
> A hrsleep() function is really what makes most sense from an API 
> perspective.

I respectfully disagree. The power of msleep is that the unit of sleep
time is in the name; so in your proposal it would be hr_msleep or
somesuch. I much rather do the opposite in that case; make the "short"
name be the best implementation of the requested behavior, and have
qualifiers for allowing exceptions to that... least surprise and all
that.
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