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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:04:50AM -0400 or thereabouts, Lowell Gilbert seemed to write:
> > > someone please tell me how to make a kld sleep for specified number of 
> > > microseconds
> > > 
> > > its urgent.
> > 
> > nanosleep (microseconds*1000);
> 
> In the kernel?  Surely not.
> 
> I think you'd need to explicitly run the scheduler, and probably use a
> timer event to resume later.  There are established techniques for
> these things, but the BSD kernel details aren't my specialty...

Sorry, I really am not familliar with the kernel. I just figured, nanosleep
is a syscall, so it should work in kernel...

Sorry again,
-- Josh

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