[coyotos-dev] Sleep, wakeup, and persistence - wall clock

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 21:49 +0200, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> On 25/09/2007, at 11.29, Charles Landau wrote:

> >At 2:30 PM +0200 9/15/07, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> >>Yes, I agree that [cancelling sleeps on restart] seems to be the 
> >>only sensible thing to do. If the
> >>system had a power loss, probably there is some alarm to service ASAP on
> >>restart, and you don't want you application to be sleeping at that time.
> >
> >I don't necessarily defend that suggestion. In any case, any need for 
> >interface 2 can be met by two processes, one waiting for a wall clock 
> >time and one waiting for a restart.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a design that requires 32
kilobytes worth of state (two processes, their code, their stacks) in
order to go to sleep.

shap