Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:12:08 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sleep(1) behavior Message-ID: <20021113141208.GP1278@starjuice.net> In-Reply-To: <xzpadkd5ztr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211121633330.37340-100000@root.org> <20021113080425.GO1278@starjuice.net> <xzpadkd5ztr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On (2002/11/13 15:06), Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > 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. For the love of dog, whatever you do, just please make sure it works when kern.turbo is not set. It's all very well adding new features, but you need to consider folks who're still using perfectly legitimate legacy configurations. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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