Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:36:11 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a proposed callout API Message-ID: <20061129.233611.-1540390902.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <6194.1164756521@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200611281631.19224.jhb@freebsd.org> <6194.1164756521@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Here's a decoder ring...
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: given wall-clock (UTC) time.
UTC has leapseconds, and likely is adjusted by ntp.
: Others want to sleep on the absolute (TAI) timescale, such as TCP
TAI has no leapseconds and is a perfect monotonic timescale.
Warner
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