Aucbvax.5110
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Wed Nov 11 12:29:44 1981
sleep writearound/system call
>From JNC@MIT-XX Wed Nov 11 11:42:32 1981
       Does anyone know why the writearound for sleep no longer
references the sleep system call but uses alarm and pause instead?  We
just found a bug (in a case where the time period was small, one
second in this case) where the alarm appeared to have happened before
the pause call (probably due to the process getting scheduled out),
causing the process to hang forever. Que pasa?
               Noel
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