a proposed callout API

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200611291650.51782.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>> I want it marked up directly in the flags passed which kind of behaviour
>> the code wants.
>
>Hmm, I guess that depends on what you consider tick_t to be.  I was thinking 
>of it as an abstract type for a deadline, and that absolute and relative are 
>sort of like subclasses of that.

I see tick_t only as an opaque measure of time and would prefer to
not have modal bits stuck into it because I fear that will make it
larger than 32 bits.

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