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From: djg@nscpdc.NSC.COM (Derek J. Godfrey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Device driver timeout question ...
Message-ID: <905@nscpdc.NSC.COM>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 15:40:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: nscpdc.905
Posted: Thu Aug 20 15:40:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 08:19:36 EDT
References: <570@obiwan.UUCP> <666@muffy.CalComp.COM>
Organization: National Semiconductor, Portland Development Center, Portland, OR
Lines: 15
Keywords: device driver, timeouts, sick devices
Summary: untimeout()

In article <666@muffy.CalComp.COM>, nawaf@muffy.CalComp.COM (Nawaf K. Bitar) writes:
 > In article <570@obiwan.UUCP>, roger@mips.UUCP (Roger March) writes:
 > > 	  So (finally) my question is: is there a way to kill outstanding an
 > > 	"timeout" when realize it is no longer neccessary?
 > 
 > My understanding is that you can call:
 > 
 > 	untimeout(fun, arg)
 > 	int (*fun)();
 > 	caddr_t arg;
 > 
For UNIX V.x the calls should be
	int t;
	t = timeout( fun, arg, time );
	untimeout( t );