On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:26, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> Ulrich, it seems to me that absolute timeouts are the easiest to do.
Does it work with settimeofday()?
> Question is whether the granularity of jiffies (10ms) is sufficiently small
> for timeouts.....
Hopefully there will be support for high-resolution clocks and timers
sometime soon. I don't know how to prepare new interfaces for this. I
guess there will be a whole bunch of interface changes/additions so you
could ignore the problem for now.
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