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Thu Nov 12 16:23:12 1981

>From ARPAVAX.wnj@Berkeley Thu Nov 12 15:33:36 1981
the old (version 6) style sleeps cause the processes
to be rescheduled once a second, which is rather expensive.
with 4.1bsd it is easy to avoid the bug in the sleep() writearound
by SIGHOLDing the signal before doing the alarm and SIGPAUSing.
	bill joy

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