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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:43:29 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:40:40 +0200 Karl Trygve Kalleberg
<karltk@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:21:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| 
| > Thoughts? I'd be happy to do all the work :)
| 
| Sounds like a terrific idea.
| 
| One off-hand question, though: Are any of the sleeps here for
| synchronization purposes, or are they all for actually displaying some
| information in a timely fashion?

A quick glance suggests they're all for making sure an einfo/ewarn gets
read. I really can't think of a legitimate reason for using sleep to
sync something -- a sleep 1 might be fine to fix some really strange bug
on an amd64 box, for example, but it probably wouldn't be on an old sun
IPX...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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