From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 13:16:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by catfish.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22583 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by catfish.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22578 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxy-bsb.gns.com.br (ygqDuYXH4qcjs4SrjxYaPtDzzuSTs1rz@[200.239.56.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28422 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:16:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@gns.com.br) Received: (qmail 5502 invoked from network); 21 Jan 1998 21:10:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO srv1-bsb.gns.com.br) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 21 Jan 1998 21:10:30 -0000 Received: (from mail@localhost) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA05493; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:10:30 -0200 (EDT) Received: from dl0235-bsb.gns.com.br(200.239.56.235) by srv1-bsb.gns.com.br via smap (V2.0) id xma005480; Wed, 21 Jan 98 19:09:46 -0200 Received: (from dcs@localhost) by daniel.sobral (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA00624; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:04:52 -0200 (EDT) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" Message-Id: <199801212104.TAA00624@daniel.sobral> Subject: Timeout(9) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:04:51 -0200 (EDT) Disclaimer: Klaatu Barada Nikto! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk After given a careful read of the man page, I was left with a doubt. When it is stated that timeout() is protected from reentrancy, does that means no other timed out function will be called, or that the _same_ function won't be called twice? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@gns.com.br For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. -- Abraham Lincoln