From: Devon H. O'Dell <devon.odell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:24:00 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: Update documentation around time.Sleep to specify its precision, and suggest
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Update documentation around time.Sleep to specify its precision, and suggest
a possible interface for more granular sleep times.

Fixes issue #260.

R=rsc, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/181058
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diff --git a/src/pkg/time/sleep.go b/src/pkg/time/sleep.go
index 79ca3b6ca3..fe0ddce4a9 100644
--- a/src/pkg/time/sleep.go
+++ b/src/pkg/time/sleep.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 )
 
-// Sleep pauses the current goroutine for ns nanoseconds.
-// It returns os.EINTR if interrupted.
+// Sleep pauses the current goroutine for at least ns nanoseconds. Higher resolution
+// sleeping may be provided by syscall.Nanosleep on some operating systems.
+// Sleep returns os.EINTR if interrupted.
 func Sleep(ns int64) os.Error { return os.NewSyscallError("sleep", syscall.Sleep(ns)) }