From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 17 14:54:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124F037B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from grondar.za (grapevine.grondar.za [196.7.18.17]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAHMnjJ07866; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:49:45 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200011172249.eAHMnjJ07866@gratis.grondar.za> To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: Nate Williams , Poul-Henning Kamp , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. References: <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com> ; from Jonathan Lemon "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:10:37 CST." Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:49:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >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) Whatever. Part of this has gone bikeshed already. What it's called, I don't care. I care that I have the facility, and my customers (AKA the rest of you developers) care that it doesn't break their favourite project. Let's focus on a solution with a minimum of chatter? :-) (Jonathan - not intended to you personally)S Noted - "time" is contentious - perhaps call it monoticks(). Noted - "monotonic" is contentious - perhaps call it bogoticks(). Let's move forward. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message