Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:06:24 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sleep(1) behavior Message-ID: <xzpadkd5ztr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20021113080425.GO1278@starjuice.net> (Sheldon Hearn's message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:04:25 %2B0200") References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211121633330.37340-100000@root.org> <20021113080425.GO1278@starjuice.net>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> 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
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