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Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

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abigail
Date:
January 30, 2001 13:17
Subject:
Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?
Message ID:
20010130211826.17077.qmail@foad.org
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:07:18PM -0800, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> 
> But the big problem is that there's a lot of stuff that's based off of
> time() right now, like stat(), lstat(), etc, etc. When you think of the
> cascading effects of changing Perl's timekeeping it gets really, really
> sticky.

I don't see this problem, unless you plan to write a filesystem in Perl.
Surely Perl asks the OS for l?stat() instead of keeping track of it itself?


Abigail
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