Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Q: nanoseconds | Date | 20 Jan 1999 18:34:08 GMT |
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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.
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