Re: arca-1-against-pre-2.1.127-3

Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:31:54 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Gerard Roudier wrote:
>
> >Here is the bug report:
>
> I just put out a new arca-6 with a more high level (and fixed) approch to
> check if the timer is pending.

On a related topic, back in 2.0.x, I've felt the lack of an atomic "start
timer with given time if not running. If already running, don't touch it"
function. A function that does this reliably (even with interrupts on)
would be appreciated.

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)

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