On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > ( if Tms > 0 )
>
> Which is unfortunate, because that doesn't allow for a value of Tms ==
> 0 which is needed when you want to sleep and wake up on every jiffie
> on systems where HZ >= 1000. Tms == 0 is taken already, to mean do
> not wait at all.
Waking up every jiffie does not make a lot of sense in most applications
since they probably prefer to deal with seconds and its derivates, to have
a predictable behavior on different systems. Functions like
poll/select/epoll are simply not the right solution if you want to cut the
microsecond on sleep times.
- Davide
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