[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 02:29 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> I have a feeling I've been misinterpreting your messages, I'll try both
> of my new interpretations.
> 
>  1) If this response is about the scheduler then I don't think it
>  matters---as long as everything stays the same relative to each other.

Sadly, this is moderately difficult to do on current PC hardware.

>  2) You still need some way to determine what the kernel thinks the
>  current number of elapsed milliseconds since the epoch has been.  If
>  it's drifts a bit that doesn't matter...

The kernel does not track this and has no opinion about it. The kernel
portion of the scheduler doesn't require this.

shap
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