On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 10:29:11AM -0700, David Seifert wrote:
> >> does some object to this change ?
> >
> > That would slow the reboot process down even more.   If it were
> > interruptible, I guess I wouldn't mind, but otherwise, ick.

I believe what the original poster wanted was just enough
time to see a final 'sorry, cannot sync all buffers, rebooting
anyway' message or some such.

For this purpose, an unconditional half a second or shorter wait
should be more than enough, and the slowdown wouldn't bother anyone.


-- 
Soren