Hi, On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> The comment for schedule_timeout() claims: > > * Make the current task sleep until @timeout jiffies have > * elapsed. > > Currently, it does not do so. I was simply trying to make the function > do what it claims it does. What makes you think the comment is correct? This comment was added at 2.4.3, while schedule_timeout() has this behaviour since it was added at 2.1.127. > My point was that the +1 issues (potential > infinite timeouts) are a problem with *jiffies* not milliseconds. And > thus need to be pushed down to the jiffies layer. I think my explanation > was pretty clear. Not really, could you go into more details why it's "a problem with *jiffies* not milliseconds"? bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
