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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return value from schedule()
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:48:45 -0600
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> use schedule_hrtimerout() for this (hopefully will be in 2.6.28);
> see this weeks LWN for an article describing it

OK, so something like:

	struct timespec ts = { 0, 10 * 1000 };

	set_task_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule_hrtimeout(&ts, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
	if (fatal_signal_pending())
		return -EINTR;

should do the trick.

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