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Re: sleep in microsecond or nanosecond


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: sleep in microsecond or nanosecond
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:57:30 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14

Thomas Bushnell, BSG, le Wed 11 Aug 2010 10:03:31 -0700, a écrit :
> The current technique is to use a blocking mach_msg which will never complete,
> and with a timeout. The reason that nanosleep and usleep don't work is because
> 10ms is the granularity of the Mach clock.  Changing the interface here isn't
> the issue so much as changing the implementation.

I agree. No need to introduce another interface, Mach's timer need to be
improved anyway to get the functionality, and then everything will be
fixed immediately.

Samuel



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