Re: [realtime] Re: [rtl] RTAI experiences, or: The Cathedral and the Baazar, part #2

[Jochen Kuepper <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de>]

On Mit, 22 Dez 1999 root wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jochen Kuepper wrote:

>>   RTLINUX_V1
>>   RTLINUX_V2
>>   RTAI
>>   KURT
>
>I strongly support this. But make it rather __RT....__

Agreed.

>> >API.  This should be discussed.  My first comment would be that I would
>> >like to see the timing services simplified so that everything can be
>> >specified in nanosecond without the user having to worry about clock
>> >ticks.
>> 
>> Well, than people will step in and ask why the hell they don't get the ns
>> resolution they specify :-(
>
>I strongly support making ns a basic time unit everywhere. It is already
>possible to get resolution better than microsecond.

Well, I actually clarified to Stuart before that I agree that ns usage
for timing functions is the way to go - we just have to tell anybody in
advance that he does not get full 1 ns resolution.
Then it was pointed out to me there is something like clock_getresolution 
(sorry, I forgot the name already :-).

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