a proposed callout API

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20061128231010.cbdc4e1d.rnsanchez at wait4.org>, Ricardo Nabinger Sanc
hez writes:
>On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:31:18 -0500
>John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> I had intended on using microseconds 
>> with a negative value indicating a relative timeout (so an 'uptime'
>> timeout, i.e. trigger X us from now) and a positive value indicating an
>> absolute timeout (time_t-ish, and subject to ntp changes).
>
>Just some devil's advocate thoughts...
>
>What are the advantages of encoding some semantic in one or two bits of the
>argument, instead of passing another word with flags?

The bits _will_ go in the flags argument I proposed.

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