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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:35:43 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: get{bin,micro,nano}[up]time() - what precision ? 
Message-ID:  <13140.1019039743@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:18:09 PDT." <3CBD21B1.2767EE59@mindspring.com> 

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In message <3CBD21B1.2767EE59@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> As usual:  Please don't pay attention to Terry, he is talking
>> without checking his facts and appearantly doesn't even know
>> that FreeBSD is way ahead of the pack when it comes to time
>> keeping code.
>
>I dislike increased imprecision.
>
>I understand wanting to limit the timecounter update frequency
>to some upper bound,

I hope everybody else who knows our kernel is having as good a
laugh as I am about Terry ?

Terry:  Here is a clue for you:  You manage to not even get close
to the topic at hand in your email.  And no, I am not going to
explain it to you.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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