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[Scsh-hackers] sleep in 0.6

To: Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: [Scsh-hackers] sleep in 0.6
From: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@zurich.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Thu Sep 6 10:24:03 2001
Cc: scsh-hackers@lists.sourceforge.net
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Reply-to: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
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Martin Gasbichler writes:
 > I propose to rename Scsh's sleep to (process-sleep sec) and place a
 > warning in the manual, that this will suspend all threads.

I agree with this. Since people are likely to call "sleep" intending to
pause the thread and not the process, it seems like it should get the
better name. 

As far as naming, are their other "process-*" functions?

-bri


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