From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 17 12:34:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2D437B4C5; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:34:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15442; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:34:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21585; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:34:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14869.38479.739838.961241@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:34:23 -0700 (MST) To: John Baldwin Cc: Nate Williams , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. In-Reply-To: References: <14869.37279.358941.976183@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin writes: > > 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() Oooh, ooh, I retrace all of mine and vote for that one. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message