From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 30 20: 4:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367AD37B40E for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:04:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41113.mail.yahoo.com (web41113.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2C2643E88 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:04:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shubha_mr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021031040424.66991.qmail@web41113.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.151.32.25] by web41113.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:04:24 GMT Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:04:24 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?shubha=20mr?= Subject: untimeout reliable? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, If there is a timeout sheduled already (because of an asynchronous interrupt),and if it is needed to untimeout the same and again start a new timeout, How reliable is untimeout?,ie will untimeout call help cancelling a timeout that has proceeded to a considerable adavanced stage? Simply put,will untimeout cause to de-establish a timeout irrespective of the position/status of a timeout already scheduled?In other words,will untimeout prove futile sometimes? Thank you, shubha __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message