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Subject: Re: MDELAY() 
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dipjyoti.saikia@gmail.com wrote: 

> DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something
> like sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU
> cycles by  DELAY'ing)

You may want to check out timeout(9) / untimeout(9), see man 9 timeout
for details.
 
> As I am pretty new to programming with Free BSD ,  can you help
> me with some details about equivalent implementation(wait queues
> etc) in Free BSD .

Reading the man pages for asleep(9) / wakeup(9) should give you a
good introduction.

ALeine
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