Replied to quickly just now and missed the following... > >From an abstraction point of view, I don't think it makes sense for so > much code to needlessly know about "ticks".
Yes, thus the conversions to actual time values. And, again, a mention that a discussion needs to be had concerning issues raised by those who have need of more specific behaviors than the current timeout API provides (for the purposes of POSIX-specified thread behavior, IIRC, was what guenther@ needed).
