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From: MBECK@ai.ai.mit.edu (Mark E. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: sleep() problem
Message-ID: <2872@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 88 09:51:55 GMT
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Hello -

     A long time ago someone posted a patch that fixed a problem
dealing with background processes doing sleep().. I recall something
along the lines of "/etc/update stopped running and was no longer
sync'ing the disk every 30 seconds".  This apparently occurred when a
second background program used sleep() and timed out.. clearing some
bit associated with /etc/update's status.

     I didn't save the patch.  Does anyone have a file copy?  Or can
point me in the "right" direction?

Muchly appreciated -
Mark Becker