Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2017, Frank Kardel wrote:

> Completely agreed, That's why I proposed to consider struct bintime.
>
> We can tackle various aspects of improving the implementations benefiting 
> from the improved APIs at any time later.
> IMHO struct bintime is sufficiently powerful enough to cover the interface 
> stability requirements (nsec are already being split
> by 4 with 4+GHz cycle counters - so something better than timespec should 
> already be in scope).

It seems that pretty much everyone is in favor of using bintime() for 
the "raw" timestamp data in kernhist.  I'll go ahead and start working 
on the required changes.


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