a proposed callout API

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20061129.235741.-278387249.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:

>: As far as I know we have no sleepers on UTC scale in the kernel and
>: nobody has said otherwise throughout this discussion.
>
>Then never mind, that solve that problem :-)

Well, at least it isolates that aspect to the poorly defined userland
sleep facilities in POSIX, which as we know, doesn't even recognize
what a timescale is or why it is important to read the entire
definition of one :-)

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