Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:40:01 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sleep.c fix for review Message-ID: <199707181740.KAA04421@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <9707181348.AA27997@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> References: <9707181348.AA27997@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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> Well, I always wondered why unices do these complicated things for sleep. > > Why doesn't sleep just call select with no fds? I think it's probably just because sleep came into existence long before select did. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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