On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:30:42PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
The non-normative section of this spec. explains where this was
a problem in 2.4, and why it is desirable, from the standpoint of
bootup time reduction, to avoid these busywaits.
In this case, it's really a bug that IDE is using a busy wait where it
should be using a sleeping wait. It's a bug, plain and simple. To
wrap the bug into "a spec" somehow seems wrong to me, especially when
it would be far better to report the problem as a bug.
Sure, specs make suit-wearing people happy, but that doesn't mean that
they're appropriate as a bug reporting method. 8)