From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 13 6: 6:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1120137B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247BA43E3B for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 06:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 72B885350; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:06:24 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Nate Lawson , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sleep(1) behavior References: <20021113080425.GO1278@starjuice.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:06:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20021113080425.GO1278@starjuice.net> (Sheldon Hearn's message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:04:25 +0200") Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > I think it's pretty clear that negative time arguments to sleep(1) are > not portable. I have, somewhere in my big bag of tricks, an unfinished patch which would allow us to implement negative sleep times by directing the PSU to emit positrons instead of electrons for the required period of time, thereby causing the system to run backward in time. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message