Re: Sleep-Slowdown

Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:28:36 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Jan-Friso Evers wrote:

> It surely does not make sense to call sleep(0), but in that case, it
> would be nice to return emmediatly.

It is silly to optimise sleep for speed! Also, there are programs out
there that expect sleep(0) to behave like sched_yield().

Tim.
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