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From: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sleep(2) historical question
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:27:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46481E9E-F3CD-4F75-8B2A-405829DFD5D2@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121128185827.863CFB827@mail.bitblocks.com>

On 28/11/2012, at 1:58 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:

> Why not add nsleep() with sleeptime in nanosecond units?  And
> of course, any necessary kernel changes for better accuracy.

Is POSIX' nanosleep() or old-POSIX/BSD/XOpen's usleep() out of the question?




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 23:19 erik quanstrom
2012-11-28  7:37 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 12:57   ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 13:10     ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 13:30       ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 14:35         ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 14:46           ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 18:58         ` Bakul Shah
2012-11-28 19:10           ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 19:28             ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 18:56               ` cinap_lenrek
2012-11-28 19:38             ` Bakul Shah
2012-11-28 20:58               ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 21:02                 ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 21:13                   ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 21:19                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 21:21                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 21:43                 ` Bakul Shah
2012-11-29  0:12                   ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-29  8:12                   ` arnold
2012-11-29  9:19                     ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-29 15:17                       ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 19:27           ` David Arnold [this message]
2012-11-28 21:12             ` Charles Forsyth
2012-11-28 19:29           ` erik quanstrom
2012-11-28 19:54             ` Bakul Shah
2012-11-28 19:57               ` erik quanstrom

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