Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > Unfortunately, this sort of thing can't be expressed using the > standard APIs. This leaves us two choices: allow the behavior of > standard APIs to be configured at some granularity, or introduce new > APIs. My feeling is we should prefer new APIs, and suggest that > programmers use those. Take a look at sys/sys/time.h:1.71 for an > example of what might make sense. I'm not sure this is a good example. There is already a suitable extensible API: clock_gettime(), which is part of SUSv3. Define new CLOCK_* constants for requesting a faster, less precise timecounter, and if you feel like it, submit it to X/Open for inclusion in the next version of the SUS. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Mon Apr 30 2007 - 18:42:22 UTC
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