From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 13 1998 - 11:50:35 EST
>
> >Just curious..
> >I noticed awt/X/cbd.c has a call to sleep(3).. is this OK?
>
> I think so. This is a tentative (async) broadcast to external clients, to ask
> if they support a certain format. Snce they might take all amount of time to
> respond, waiting a sec (when the preferred format fails) seems to be fair.
>
I think what Archie meant to say is whether you should call
jthread_sleep(3000) instead. sleep(3) will
a) block the whole process
b) not work if other alarms are pending.
- Godmar
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