FBSD 5.5 and software timers

[Sean C. Farley]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <B3BCAF4246A8A84983A80DAB50FE72424C698C at secnap2.secnap.com>
>            "Michael Scheidell" <scheidell at secnap.net> writes:
> : > -----Original Message-----
> : > From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:imp at bsdimp.com]
> : > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:39 PM
> : > To: Michael Scheidell
> : > Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> : > Subject: Re: FBSD 5.5 and software timers
> :

<snip>

> : I am going to try to nail down just what and why this happens and
> : post that.
> : (reminder: even if this change happened in 3.4, it didn't affect me
> : till 5.5)
>
> It might be useful to find the change.

There was a fix for an issue I had with nanosleep() in the past
(gnu/77818[1]) that might be related.  It went into 5.4-STABLE.

Sean
   1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=gnu/77818
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