On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > And what do you do if it fails?
>
> Personally, I'd panic. At least a diagnostic, so we could usefully trap on it.
Yes, perhaps that is best. Noted. Too late for 4.43, whose code has been
frozen and I don't judge it important enough to unfreeze, as it's been
this way for a long time.
> > You could perhaps obey sleep(n) as an
> > emergency fixup, where n is the time rounded up to the nearest second.
> >
> > Advantage: apart from a too-long delay, everything works.
>
> Too long as in infinite - the timer's not set, the alarm never goes
> off, you wait forever.
No, the sleep will give you the (overlong) delay instead (you don't do
the suspend, of course). But I don't like this idea.
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