From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T05:16:10+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler

On 3/1/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> The Ruby thread scheduler uses setitimer(2) and select(2).  It
> depends on the wall-clock for implementing features defined in terms
> of the wall-clock (Kernel#sleep and Thread#join).

<snip>

Thanks for the explanation.  I'm probably missing something, I'm
confused by why the functionality you describe in Kernel#sleep and
Thread#join can't be implemented using only select(). Can you clarify?

Thanks,

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Avdi