From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 17 3:36: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A674237B404 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 03:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3HAZhlX013141; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:35:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get{bin,micro,nano}[up]time() - what precision ? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:18:09 PDT." <3CBD21B1.2767EE59@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:35:43 +0200 Message-ID: <13140.1019039743@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message