Subject: Re: vague proposal for new scheduler primitive: asynchronous "sleep"
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/09/1999 19:21:20 
On Sun, 9 May 1999 18:24:08 -0700 (PDT) 
 "Eduardo E. Horvath" <eeh@one-o.com> wrote:

 > > 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()?

timeout() and untimeout() don't allow for the wakeup() method of calling
the callback.

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