Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: Where is usleep(3) Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 90 22:29:50 GMT References: <2588@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <1990Jun14.062921.10336@max.physics.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 30 In-reply-to: rosalia@max.physics.sunysb.edu's message of 14 Jun 90 06:29:21 GMT In article <1990Jun14.062921.10336@max.physics.sunysb.edu> rosalia@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Mark Galassi) writes: | In article <2588@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes: | >My M/120 (RISC/os 4.01) has a usleep(3-BSD) man page, but I can't find | >the function itself in any of the libraries. Where is it? Is it a ghost? | | usleep is indeed an insidious ghost. several X programs will not compile | because it is missing. it is quite frustrating. However it shouldn't take more than about 5 minutes tops for somebody to code a usleep using select (hint -- have the fd ptrs all point to null words, select something like 32 for the # fd's, and fill in the appropriate time structure). | Has anyone exorcised the other bad ghost on the MIPS and SGI machines | (and, really, all system V machines with looser "most BSD" stuff) which | is the different pseudo tty scheme? | | I would LLLLOOOOVVVVEEEE it if someone were to post a port of "screen" | to the MIPS and SGI machines. | -- | {These opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-)} | Mark Galassi rosalia@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu | rosalia@mozart.UUCP rosalia@sunysbnp.BITNET -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so