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

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abigail
Date:
January 31, 2001 14:57
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Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?
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20010131225743.19897.qmail@foad.org
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:23:43PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Pulling out or mangling time strikes me as intensely pointless, and I don't 
> > see it happening. The socket stuff is really the only core functionality 
> > that makes any sense to pull out, and that only from an architectural 
> > standpoint.
> 
> Perhaps some of the more grossly UNIX specific things like getpwnam's
> extended family and the SysV IPC stuff?


But why? What is it going to buy you?



Abigail
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