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Subject: read_timedwait
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:24:40 EST
From: Yonah Schmeidler <yonah@MIT.EDU>

is confused about nsec v. usec.  if I use gettimeofday to get a timeval,
then TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC to get a timespec (multiply tv.tv_usec*1000 to
get ts.tv_nsec), read_timedwait doesn't time out properly.  if I just
copy tv.tv_usec to ts.tv_nsec directly, it works like I think it should.

-yonah