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> Each tsleep() count corresponds to 1/hz seconds, where hz should
> be considered opaque.

Yup, but since I'm using tsleep to block for "a while", while the card does
it's business, and waking up now and then to since if it has finished, I'd
like to have _some_ notion of home much is hz. It's way different if hz is
usually in then tenths of second, than if hz is hardly less than 1/100s.

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Daniel C. Sobral                      (8-DCS)
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