As Julian Elischer wrote:
> the calls you want are
> timeout(9)
> untimeout(9)
> tsleep(9)
> and wakeup(9)
> not all have man pages yet
This time you err, Julian. :-) All of them have man pages already.
OTOH, if your card design is not yet finalized, you might add a timer
of your own onto the card, and have it raising an interrupt to your
driver. That's probably more efficient than the rather high overhead
of the timer queue.
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