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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:34 -0700
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On 7/28/2010 2:23 PM, Andrew Morton wrote

, it would never have happened.

>> In that case, it would pus
>> h me in the direction of only providing
>> usleep_range, and thus forcing people to think about it that way;
>> leave slack decisions to people who know what tolerances are acceptable.
>>      
> Well, I _think_ that would be a good approach.  I'm 45%/55% on that one
> and would be interested in other opinions ;)
>
>    

for new interfaces I'd really like a "range only" option... make people 
think.
And passing in a 0 is easy.

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