New "timeout" api, to replace callout

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <477C1CF3.6070301 at freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann writes:

>I fear we have to go for the latter.  Getting a non-sleeping callout
>drain seems to be non-trivial.

There is a crucial difference between "non-sleeping" and "not sleeping
on my lock" that you should be very careful about in this context.

Which is your requirement ?

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