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29.0.90; New libraries that still need to be assigned to packages

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: jonas <at> bernoul.li, 62751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62751: 29.0.90; New libraries that still need to be assigned to packages
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:21:54 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> BTW, how 'bout we drop the `millisec` arg of `sleep-for` as well (and
>> the pretense that there are still systems that can only sleep for whole
>> seconds)?

Sounds good to me.

> Do we know which systems are/were those?  If not, how can we be sure
> they are no longer interesting?

AFAIK, this primarily concerns early UNIX systems.

For example, the HISTORY section in "man 3 usleep" says that the call
was introduced as late as in BSD 4.3, which was released in 1986.

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