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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:12:21 +0000
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: cynchronised sleep capbilty..
Message-ID:  <200502031012.22602.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050202094256.K88344@localhost>
References:  <20050201101113.J572@localhost> <200502011913.j11JDXsf084862@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20050202094256.K88344@localhost>

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On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:44, Julian Elischer wrote:
> very clever!
>
> however it doesn't phaselock to teh time and still drifts.
> I need to trigger on (for example) 10 second boundaries across 50
> synchronised machines..
> (so thatthe machines agree about the sampling period.)

How about a cron job which writes characters into a fifo every ten 
secconds. The script can wait for the next ten second mark by reading a 
single char from the other end of the fifo.



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