From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Dale Harris Cc: "'Mailing List: linuxppc-dev'" Subject: Re: A question on kernel clock: From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:07:13 PST." <20031230210713.GC5005@maybe.org> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:40:32 +0100 Message-Id: <20031230214037.77A1CC12DD@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <20031230210713.GC5005@maybe.org> you wrote: > > > > (1) which timer is used for nsleep? > > > > I have not the slightest idea. I don't know of any standard funtion > > with that name - neither in user space nor in kernel code. > > Perhaps he means nanosleep(). Perhaps. But then the definition of nanosleep() says that it will cause a delay of "at least the time specified in *req", i. e. the upper bound is not even specified. But the OP seemed to assume a strict timing, so maybe it was yet another function. Best regards, and a Happy New Year! Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Old programmers never die, they just become managers. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/