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** Reply to message from David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> on Tue, 30 Jan
2001 11:11:27 +0000


> Note that this is _precisely_ the reason I'm advocating the removal of
> sleep_on(). When I was young and stupid (ok, "younger and stupider") I used
> sleep_on() in my code. I pondered briefly the fact that I really couldn't
> convince myself that it was safe, but because it was used in so many other
> places, I decided I had to be missing something, and used it anyway.
>
> I was wrong. I was copying broken code. And now I want to remove all those
> bad examples - for the benefit of those who are looking at them now and are
> tempted to copy them.

What is wrong with sleep_on()?


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