Re: [HACKERS] RE: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/access/transam ( xact.c xlog.c)

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001116 12:09] wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001116 14:02]:
> > > > This sounds like an interesting approach, yes.
> > > Question: Is sleep(0) guaranteed to at least give up control? 
> > > 
> > > The way I read my UnixWare 7's man page, it might not, since alarm(0)
> > > just cancels the alarm...
> > 
> > Well, it certainly is a kernel call, and most OS's re-evaluate on kernel
> > call return.
> BUT, do we know for sure that sleep(0) is not optimized in the library
> to just return? 

sleep(3) should conform to POSIX specification, if anyone has the
reference they can check it to see what the effect of sleep(0)
should be.

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