From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 1 03:08:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA17909 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 03:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA17900 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 03:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA14960; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 20:57:55 +1000 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 20:57:55 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199604011057.UAA14960@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD performance vs BSD/OS Cc: bde@zeta.org.au Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> There are many different real and virtual (timekeeping) clocks with >> different frequencies: >Should this become time(9)? No, it has very little to do with time or the kernel. clocks(7) would be better, and half of it is i386-specific so it would need to be split up. I don't like section 9. It is hard to improve on the sources, and harder to keep up to date with the sources. Bruce