02/12/02 11:52:53, Ehud Karni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0200, voguemaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 3. Using SIGALARM. I forgot how this is implemented. Never did go into this since
>> it has problems (also among platforms).
>
>SIGALARM can be used by settin
"Ehud Karni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The ping proves nothing. Most of the ping delay is "computing" delay
> caused by the NICs and the switches (and routers and bridges for WAN).
> Some of the delay is caused by the bandwidth.
While I agree with you in the context of the comment you are rep
On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:07:50 +0200, voguemaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 3. Using SIGALARM. I forgot how this is implemented. Never did go into this since
> it has problems (also among platforms).
SIGALARM can be used by setting a signal handler (that does nothing).
It functions by interrup
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> They [physicists - OG] will claim that the ELECTRONS don't travel at the
> speed of light, but that is mostly irelevant to this discussion. The
> speed of electricity is not far from the speed of light, IIRC.
It is *of the order of* the speed of light
01/12/02 07:55:04, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> second
> that sendmail as a user process, manages it's own TCP connection timeout
> when that's a kernel thing. I'm no great programmer, but I think
> creating a TCP connection is a blocked call and the timeout is fixed in the
> kernel
A
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:55:04 +0200
Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that sendmail as a user process, manages it's own TCP connection timeout
> when that's a kernel thing. I'm no great programmer, but I think
> creating a TCP connection is a blocked call and the timeout is fixed in the
> kern
Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Sat, 30 Nov:
On 29-Nov-2002 David Bergman wrote:
Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible ... I almost regret posting
the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks
indeed, you could
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Sat, 30 Nov:
> On 29-Nov-2002 David Bergman wrote:
> > Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible ... I almost regret posting
> > the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks
>
>
indeed, you could have sent a link instead of
On 29-Nov-2002 David Bergman wrote:
> Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible ... I almost regret posting
> the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks
> Feeling slightly giddy, I typed into my shell:
>
> $ units
> 1311 units, 63 prefixes
>
> You have: 3 millilig
