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Subject: Re: nanosleep
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 01:57, mark manning wrote:
> hrm - im confiused now - how can you do a n NANO second delay when the
> resolution is 10 mili seconds ?

Uh, you can't - that was his point.

You can try, and you will certainly sleep at least that long, but any
time given modulo 10ms is out the door ...

Like I said, check out the high resolution timers project.

	Robert Love


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