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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday-based soft-timer subsystem
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 Is that no
longer valid?

Chris
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