Subject: Re: Suspend/resume hooks
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/26/1999 20:42:06
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:04:52 -0400 
 Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> wrote:

 > > Would there be any way of getting FreeBSD and NetBSD (and mayhaps
 > > even OpenBSD as well) to decide on one asleep() with the same function?
 > > (Hence I cc:'d you Matt, hope you don't mind.)
 > 
 > Well, the FreeBSD asleep() does something *completely* different.
 > 
 > As I haven't yet implemented sommerfeld-asleep(), i'll probably rename
 > it to something else..  esleep(), maybe?

Why?  asleep() is perfectly descriptive for "asynchronous sleep".

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>