Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:53:11 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification |
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:22:32AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > For a timeout? Please get real. > If you need more precision, use a dedicated timer API, but don't make the > general case more complex for the 99.99% of other users.
Struct timeout is just a struct timespec + a bit for absolute/relative + a field for clock specification. What's so complex about that? It captures everything needed to specify time, from here to the end of time.
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