Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:49:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. Message-ID: <200011172249.eAHMnjJ07866@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com> ; from Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:10:37 CST." References: <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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> > > >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
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