Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:57 PM 1/31/2001 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:23:43PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > Pulling out or mangling time strikes me as intensely pointless, and I 
> don't
> > > see it happening. The socket stuff is really the only core functionality
> > > that makes any sense to pull out, and that only from an architectural
> > > standpoint.
> >
> > Perhaps some of the more grossly UNIX specific things like getpwnam's
> > extended family and the SysV IPC stuff?
>
>
>But why? What is it going to buy you?

Not that much. More than anything else the ability to deal with them 
externally for non-unix platforms. Dunno if it's worth it as anything other 
than a first-cut proof of concept thing.

                                        Dan

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