From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 17 12:17:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267FA37B4CF for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:17:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15107; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:14:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21452; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:14:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14869.37279.358941.976183@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:14:23 -0700 (MST) To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: Nate Williams , Poul-Henning Kamp , mark@grondar.za, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. In-Reply-To: <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20001117135523.B20231@futuresouth.com> <26172.974492540@critter> <14869.36912.901949.718314@nomad.yogotech.com> <20001117141037.E19895@prism.flugsvamp.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ -moved to chat ] > > > >> If it isn't dealing properly with async PCC/TSC counters on SMP machines > > > >> it shouldn't be called "monoanyting". > > > >> > > > >> I guess I totally object to the name now :-) > > > > > > > >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) randotonic()? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message