Re: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

[Andi Kleen]

> I think the accepted and standard way to do this is to use different 
> "clock"s. For example, in the HRT patch the clocks CLOCK_REALTIME_HR and 
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR are defined as high resolution clocks.

Note precision here can be fairly long - some timers dont even
if they run a minute earlier or later or even longer. For others
it can be rather small.

I dont think you want own clocks for all possible numbers. It makes
much more sense to give a numerical time offset.

-Andi
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