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From: Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] A heartfelt thanks... :-)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:34:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1542404048.1432707.1579698600.25EB527C@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHL7psFATvFS77a4ojHVfxgvfGhxY9ZYVG+B11GjaBdO0nva4g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, at 2:03 AM, Giacomo Tesio wrote:
> Il giorno ven 6 gen 2017 alle ore 10:38 Anthony Martin
> <ality@pbrane.org> ha scritto:
> > I'm interested in reading about your awake system call and the changes
> > you've made to rendezvous and the variuos locks in libc.
>
> Hi Anthony, sorry for the 2 years delay, but I've finally wrote about awake.
> http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html
>
> Feel free to ask any question!

I like this single interface to timeouts.  I'm very much in favour of things like this rather than jamming features into interfaces.

Please forgive my laziness in not reading the code, but how do you actually implement sleep?  Does the process read a file guaranteed to block forever, or what?



  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-16 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-06  3:17 Giacomo Tesio
2017-01-06  9:34 ` Anthony Martin
2017-01-06 19:42   ` Giacomo Tesio
2018-11-16  2:03   ` Giacomo Tesio
2018-11-16 21:34     ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2018-11-16 23:35       ` Giacomo Tesio
2018-11-17 17:18         ` Ethan Gardener

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