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Re: xnanosleep range with 64 bit time_t
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Frank v Waveren |
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Re: xnanosleep range with 64 bit time_t |
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Sun, 3 Sep 2006 05:12:59 +0200 |
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 02:14:13PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Yeah, I was being lazy. There seems to be a little trouble with the
> > sleep-as-long-as-we-can patch anyway, I'll see if this isn't too tricky
> > to hack up and try submitting it.
> Thanks. Please let us know how it turns out; if nanosleep can fail
> with EOVERFLOW we'll have to recode things again to work around that
> problem. (I hope it doesn't come to that....)
Hmm, they've fixed the problem the the capping-the-sleep-time patch,
and Thomas Gleixner doesn't seem very eager to accept the patch (not
big on solutions to "academic" problems apparantly). I'll CC you on
the thread, but suspect you're best of just waiting a little and
seeing what ends up in Linus's tree.
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