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Re: RE: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/access/transam ( xact.c xlog.c)

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-11-16T20:57:57Z
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> > The way I read my UnixWare 7's man page, it might not, since alarm(0)
> > just cancels the alarm...
> 
> Well, it certainly is a kernel call, and most OS's re-evaluate on kernel
> call return.

In glibc, sleep(0) just does "return 0;", so if the compiler has a good
day the call will disappear completely.

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