From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 23 23:21:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA05517 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:21:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr07.primenet.com (tlambert@usr07.primenet.com [206.165.6.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA05512 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA05226; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:21:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709240621.XAA05226@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: new timeout routines To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 06:21:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: julian@whistle.com, gibbs@plutotech.com, tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199709231452.IAA07122@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Sep 23, 97 08:52:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > These were my thoughts while reading the paper. I was a little > > dissapointed that you didn't implement the compatible interface that > > they originally wrote. > > Now, this is something I don't understand. Why the need for the > 'cookies' in the drivers, since I don't see what it gains us? (Time to > go re-read the code and paper again.) Untimeout this particular timeout without traversing the whole list of possible timeouts. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.