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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:40:40 +0200 Karl Trygve Kalleberg |
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<karltk@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:21:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Thoughts? I'd be happy to do all the work :) |
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| Sounds like a terrific idea. |
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| One off-hand question, though: Are any of the sleeps here for |
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| synchronization purposes, or are they all for actually displaying some |
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| information in a timely fashion? |
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A quick glance suggests they're all for making sure an einfo/ewarn gets |
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read. I really can't think of a legitimate reason for using sleep to |
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sync something -- a sleep 1 might be fine to fix some really strange bug |
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on an amd64 box, for example, but it probably wouldn't be on an old sun |
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IPX... |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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