sleepy receiveTimeout?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Nick Voronin wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:19:47 +0100
> Joost 't Hart <Joost.t.Hart at planet.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Quoting the documentation:
>>
>> /Suspends the calling thread for at least the supplied period./
>>
>> What does "at least" mean here? Is there also an "at most"? I do not 
>> want my friend to end up in cyberspace. :-)
> 
> Nope, there isn't :) In ordinary multitasking environment there is no guarantee on upper bound.
> 
	Note that the absence of upper bound is not related to sleep. In
ordinary multitasking environment there is no guarantee that your
program will not be stopped at some arbitrary point for an arbitrary
long time no matter what it does.

		Jerome
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