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Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions
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Thomas Bushnell, BSG |
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Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions |
Date: |
12 Jul 2001 15:03:23 -0700 |
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Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> For the long term, I'd suggest to use seconds as the base unit. As has
> been suggested before, using rational numbers or reals allows to specify
> any fraction of the given time unit. So why choose something else than
> the SI standard, i. e. seconds?
Seconds are fine, but my point is that the user shouldn't ever see
that except by calling (timediff->seconds (- time1 time2)) where
subtracting times gives a "time difference", which can then be
converted to whatever units you want (and a "time difference" is also
the arg for itimer functions).
This is more than just doing an interface to itimer, but I think it's
worth doing it right.
- Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, (continued)
- Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/07/07
- Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/07
- Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Matthias Koeppe, 2001/07/13
- Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/22
Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Rob Browning, 2001/07/09
Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Martin Grabmueller, 2001/07/07
Re: proposed getitimer and setitimer functions, Rob Browning, 2001/07/29