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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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Subject: Re: talk session
Message-ID: <1991May08.175740.12233@kithrup.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 17:57:40 GMT
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In article <1991May7.102219.25557@ssd.kodak.com> weimer@ssd.kodak.com writes:
>Mmmm, my man page doesn't tell me how to sleep for less than 1 second...

SunOS:  usleep()
Xenix:  nap() (note also present in SysVr3.2 and later)
SysVr3.[01]:  use poll(); this might not be present in your version of
	SysVr3.[01]
SysVr2.x:  use read on a tty device, with min=1 time=<x>, where <x> is the
	number of 1/10ths of a second you wish to delay
4.[23]BSD:  use select() (similar to poll() above, but more portable)

All of thse are (or should be 8-)) documented.  The problem is that, except
for usleep() and nap(), none of them was intended to be used soley as a
sleep-call.

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