SUMMARY followup: Need millisecond sleep() subroutine

From: Don Catey (catey@wren.geg.mot.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 1996 - 17:59:07 CDT


Thought I should pass this on as well since I missed it in my first
summary...

> From gdonl@tsc.tdk.com Thu Aug 1 15:50 MST 1996
> From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:46:25 -0700
> To: catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey)
> Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Need millisecond sleep() subroutine
>
> On Aug 1, 9:12am, Don Catey wrote:
> } Subject: SUMMARY: Need millisecond sleep() subroutine
> } Thanks to everyone that replied (far too many to list). I appreciate your
> } help.
> }
> } The overwhelming vote is for usleep, which will allow sleeping in micro-
> } seconds. There were also suggestions for nanosleep, poll (NULL, 0, n)
> } and the following select routine from Gregory Bond:
>
> And the sleep intervals of all of these will have a granularity of 10
> milliseconds, since the hardware timer which periodically interrupts the
> CPU runs at 100 HZ.
>
> --- Truck
>



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