Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:47:41 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@gns.com.br> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeout(9) Message-ID: <199801212247.PAA08995@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199801212104.TAA00624@daniel.sobral>
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In article <199801212104.TAA00624@daniel.sobral> you wrote: > After given a careful read of the man page, I was left with a doubt. > When it is stated that timeout() is protected from reentrancy, does > that means no other timed out function will be called, or that the > _same_ function won't be called twice? No timeout handler will be entered while you are in a timeout handler. These semantics might be relaxed to only prevent per handler re-entrancy in some future SMP release though. > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@gns.com.br > > For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. > -- Abraham Lincoln -- Justin
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