Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 19:11:24 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: patrick collins <pc012@seqeb.gov.au>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver question on interval execution (polling?) Message-ID: <331106DC.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <199702240127.UAA04260@spoon.beta.com>
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Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > Based on my reading of several device driver books, I am aware of a mechanism > to be able to have the kernel re-enter a particular function after a certain > time period is past. Using this system, you should be able to do your > poll, and then implement the required code so the function will be restarted > some time in the future, and then it should terminate. the calls you want are timeout(9) untimeout(9) tsleep(9) and wakeup(9) not all have man pages yet
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