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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:07:28 +1100 (EST)
From:      Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: calibrating time
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412221904450.2350@dave.horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041222075144.GN79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <6.2.0.7.1.20041221221529.021bb7d0@pop.phreaker.net> <20041222075144.GN79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> Out of interest, what are you expecting to demonstrate?  In FreeBSD,
> both sleep(3) and usleep(3) are implemented using nanosleep(2).
> (This differs from the traditional implementation of sleep(3) which
> used alarm(2) and pause(2)).

Or, for that matter, the traditional use of sleep(2) before that :-)

-- Dave



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