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From: rtc@cca.UUCP (Richard Carling)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sleep()
Message-ID: <5384@cca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Aug-83 10:51:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  9 10:51:07 1983
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The fsleep() system call does use the "timeout" mechanism in the kernal. It
works fine on VERY loaded systems. It is available in 4.1BSD. I wrote it
several years ago to do real-time graphics and Berkeley has since picked
it up.