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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sleep()
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Date: Sat, 6-Aug-83 20:03:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  6 20:03:08 1983
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An alternate way to implement short-duration alarms or sleeps would be to use
the "timeout" facility in the kernel.  This way, only the first entry in the
timeout queue would be checked every clock tick, not the entire process table.

	Guy Harris
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