Re: [9fans] sleep(2) historical question

[Charles Forsyth]

the relative unimportance of sleep?

On 27 November 2012 23:19, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> why is sleep(2) limited in resolution to HZ in the
> portable code?  the underlying mechanism is often
> much finer grained than HZ, and if there is a limit,
> one would think that it's related to the hardware
> mechanism, not the HZ clock.  i'm clearly missing
> something.
>
> - erik
>