Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 May 2005 11:22:20 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday-based soft-timer subsystem |
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Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> but then there is another issue: the restart_block used by > sys_nanosleep() only allows for 4 unsigned long arguments, when, in > fact, nanoseconds are a 64-bit quantity in the kernel. As long as the > nanosleep() request is no more than around 4 seconds, we should be ok > using unsigned longs.
My man page for nanosleep specifies that the "nanoseconds" portion of the timespec must be under 1 billion and is of type "long". Is that no longer valid?
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