Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:43:20 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Scheduler fixes |
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> Arbitary timers, e.g. for network applications in case a connect() takes > to long or other timeouts. Using the select() timeout is a nice alternative > to alarm()
Of course, but I was talking about short-delay timers causing the apps to consume lots of CPU time even if they are idle.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug."
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