[Babel-users] Babel in Bird 1.6.0

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> writes:

>> Right, yeah, the overflow check is done on the specified values not
>> their centisecond equivalents. Oops.
>
> IMHO the reasonable way would be to keep such values (intervals)
> internally in Babel native time units (centiseconds) and only convert
> to BIRD units when appropriate (when mixed with bird_clock_t values).

That would work. Also thought about using the expr_us mechanism in the
config parser code. However, both of those would break existing
configurations (not that there are many at this point; but the principle
remains). What is your policy on that?

Also, since we can't actually schedule things at a granularity finer
than seconds, setting a lower value would just result in announcing
deadlines we then cannot meet, which is bound to break things. So for
the time being I think keeping it the way it is would be best, no?

-Toke
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