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>>>>> "lu?s" == Lu?s Henriques <umiguel@alunos.deis.isec.pt> writes:

>> This to me looks like the main desire is to fool the user.  It looks like
>> it doing something, but it really isn't...

lu?s> Not really... This may look like an old DOS virus :) but it is not! It's a 
lu?s> fault injection tool - it's purpose (in this case, of corse) is to cause a 
lu?s> very short delay on a critic process.

What is wrong putting a signal handler in your process for a signal,
and busy wait in that signal all the time that you want?

Later, Juan.


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