From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 17 12:33:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E185E37B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:33:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAHKWUB01114; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14869.37279.358941.976183@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:33:11 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, mark@grondar.za, Poul-Henning Kamp , Jonathan Lemon Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Nov-00 Nate Williams wrote: >> > > >> If it isn't dealing properly with async PCC/TSC counters on SMP >> > > >> machines >> > > >> it shouldn't be called "monoanyting". >> > > >> >> > > >> I guess I totally object to the name now :-) >> > > > >> > > >OK, how about bogotime(9)? ;) >> > > >> > > It's not returning units of any known time. "bogocount()" maybe... >> > >> > How about 'slushycounter()'? >> >> falseticker()? (Okay, probably too NTP specfic) > > randotonic()? my_green_bikshed_function() -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message