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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RE: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/access/transam ( xact.c xlog.c)
Date: 2000-11-16 20:57:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0011162156050.783-100000@peter.localdomain
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> > 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.

In glibc, sleep(0) just does "return 0;", so if the compiler has a good
day the call will disappear completely.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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