On Sun, 9 May 1999, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> void asleep(void *ident, 
>             void (*callback)(void *arg, int), 
> 	    void *arg, int timo);
> 
> "asynchronous sleep".  Returns immediately after setting things up
> such that callback() will be called at some point in the future;
> either as:
> 
>        callback(arg, 1);
> 
> after `timo' clock ticks, or as 
> 
>        callback(arg, 0);
> 
> if some process calls wakeup(ident) before the timeout expires.  as
> with tsleep, timo==0 -> doesn't time out.

How is this different from callint timeout() and then untimeout()?

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