From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-15427-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 14355 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 20:46:46 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 1 Sep 2004 20:46:46 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2c0E-0004b8-0r for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:46:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 16327 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2004 20:46:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14081 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 20:46:31 +0000 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:43:29 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040901214329.42f8d7f6@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040901204040.GK19846@gentoo.org> References: <20040901212144.1d18b048@snowdrop.home> <20040901204040.GK19846@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_43_29_+0100_/awEtuVodUPLob1P" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds X-Archives-Salt: d7de0648-100a-4ea0-92f5-fe120a778578 X-Archives-Hash: b37d8558a21b280f386fb3b72ac043bf --Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_43_29_+0100_/awEtuVodUPLob1P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_43_29_+0100_/awEtuVodUPLob1P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBNjRz96zL6DUtXhERAqXHAKC9usITXTcr/tnAGmfzARY1KtopoACfYiRQ T8lidzLI6uRLh+d5zaFk7io= =IZBP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Wed__1_Sep_2004_21_43_29_+0100_/awEtuVodUPLob1P--