Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:04:08 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MDELAY() Message-ID: <20050415150408.GA1442@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <200504151303.j3FD3Bhv073436@marlena.vvi.at> References: <200504151303.j3FD3Bhv073436@marlena.vvi.at>
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:03:11AM -0700, ALeine wrote: > 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. You should not use timeout(9) without a very good reason, the callout_* interface is prefered. Joerg
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