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Re: Screwy clock after apm suspend
Hi!
> > If I do cli(); sleep(5 hours); sti();, system should survive that. If
> > you do cli(); sleep(5 hours); sti() but fail to compensate for lost
> > ticks, all sorts of funny things might happen if you are comunicating
> > with someone who did not sleep.
>
> Wouldn't a thread that did that be fundamentally broken?
Well, sleeping for 5 hours with interrupts off is certainly wrong
thing to do... But what swsusp does is pretty much equivalent. Machine
is unresponsive for hours...
Pavelp
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