[openbeos] Re: undocumented syscalls

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:06:13 EDT (-0400)

> I too am curious about how the scheduler works, but the above quote 
> doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me (time based callout queue? 
> wha?). If there is another explanation available somewhere, I'd sure 
> like to see it.

Presumably it just sets the timer to the amount of time needed
to wait for the next thing in the queue of time events.  So when
nothings happening, no timer interrupts happen.

- Alex



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