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From: "mark manning" <mark.manning@fastermail.com>
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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:22:12 -0500
Subject: Re: nanosleep
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hi - yes i read the man pages, im already using nanosleep for doing 1 second delays and i chose nanosleep because a signal can interrupt the delay which might be useful (and might not :)

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:32:03 -0400 (EDT)
To: mark manning <mark.manning@fastermail.com>
Subject: Re: nanosleep


> > could someone show me how to do a delay of N miliseconds using nanosleep ?
> > (given n delay n mili seconds etc) - i cant seem to get my code to work
> > doh! 
> 
> did you read the fine man page, esp the section on resolution
> and busy-waits?  also, using select for its timeout is probably
> more portable.
> 
> 

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