Updating callout_reset
Mike Silbersack
silby at silby.com
Sun Jan 25 23:42:47 PST 2004
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> No, not timespec.
>
> Timespecs are stupid, slow, clumsy and unhandy and cumbersome.
>
> With a timespec you either need an MPunsafe hack function like
> libevents evConsTime() or a local stack variable.
>
> Make it a 64bit count of nanoseconds instead that way it can be
> used as a literal constant.
>
> It's OK with me if we want to have a function to contain the "*
> 1000000000LL" factor for us, and maybe even convenience functions
> for milli and microseconds.
>
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
Ah, that would work better. I guess this getting ideas reviewed process
does help. :)
Do we have a preexisting name for the "64bit nanoseconds" type?
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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