[time-nuts] FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Minix-III?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20090518041523.7B7CDBCE6 at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Murr
ay writes:
>
>> Why not add a hardware latch with a fixed delay to read. 

Because then you need locking to prevent multiple threads/processes
from accssing the hardware at the same time.

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