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

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From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
January 31, 2001 15:55
Subject:
Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?
Message ID:
20010131235450.A1414@pembro26.pmb.ox.ac.uk
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:57:43PM +0100, abigail@foad.org wrote:
> > 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?

The fact is, they don't need to be there.
And there isn't really a good reason for having them there.
So, since we're starting from scratch, we're not getting rid of them.
We're merely not putting them in.

-- 
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
we speak.
		-- Arab proverb

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