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Date:      Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys time.h src/sys/kern kern_time.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20051129134256.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <5744.1133203908@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On 28-Nov-2005 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I've looked a lot at this in the ISC eventlib (bind8) but there is
> no way to save one timestamp per iteration without getting creeping
> imprecision in the timer controlled events.

Would it help if we had something like select/poll that took an
absolute time (a deadline) instead of a timeout -- as is done by
pthread_cond_timedwait?

John



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