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Aucbvax.5110 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Wed Nov 11 12:29:44 1981 sleep writearound/system call >From JNC@MIT-XX Wed Nov 11 11:42:32 1981 Does anyone know why the writearound for sleep no longer references the sleep system call but uses alarm and pause instead? We just found a bug (in a case where the time period was small, one second in this case) where the alarm appeared to have happened before the pause call (probably due to the process getting scheduled out), causing the process to hang forever. Que pasa? Noel -------

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