On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:22:32AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> For a timeout? Please get real.
> If you need more precision, use a dedicated timer API, but don't make the 
> general case more complex for the 99.99% of other users.

Struct timeout is just a struct timespec + a bit for absolute/relative +
a field for clock specification.  What's so complex about that?  It captures
everything needed to specify time, from here to the end of time.

Joe
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