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.Sh HISTORY
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The sleep/wakeup thread synchronization mechanism is very old.
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It
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appeared in a very early version of
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.Ux .
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The functions
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.Fn sleep
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and
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.Fn wakeup
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was present in
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.At v1 .
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They were probably also present in the preceding
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PDP-7 version of UNIX.
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They were the basic process synchronization model.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn tsleep
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function appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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.Bx 4.4
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and added the parameters
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.Fa wmesg
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and
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.Fa timo .
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The
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.Fn wakeup_one
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function appeared in
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function appeared in
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.Fx 7.0 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn sleep
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function used to be the traditional form.
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It did not let you specify a timeout or a
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.Fa wmesg ,
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hence it was discontinued.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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