Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:36:57 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <8700.1004132217@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:34:13 %2B0200." <8629.1004132053@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <8629.1004132053@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: Damn, signbug: >[ > >For the record: > >I spent the better part of a two years on making FreeBSD the first >UNIX to truly deal with nanoseconds and the first platform where NTP >could work in nanoseconds, so I happen to think that I know something >about this subject. > >I'm not going to ignore Matt on this subject until he comes to his s/not // >senses or at least calms down to the point where he spends more than >3 seconds on an email before replying to it. > >Obviously my silence should not be interpreted to mean that I >have been convinced by and agree with Matt. > >I maintain my recommandation on 64.64 binary timestamps as our >fundamental representation. > >] > > > >-- >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 > -- 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
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