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From: erik@mpx1.UUCP (Erik Murrey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: portable way to do nap()
Keywords: delay() in user space...
Message-ID: <543@mpx1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 03:58:38 GMT
Organization: MPX Data Systems, Inc.,  Wayne,  Pennsylvania
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How can I do a portable nap()?  A nap() (under XENIX) allows
a user process to block for a short time, usually a few hundred ms.

In any case, SysVr2 doesn't support a nap()-like call which is
very useful for two reasons (that I can think of):

1.
	Communications protocols implemented at the user process
	level (e.g. uucico, etc.)
2.
	Character input routines that must distinguish between
	ESC and a function key.

I hear that some systems have a special device for nap()-ing, and
others use select(), and still others are stuck with using a
CPU intensive while() loop using the times() call.

Does SysVr3 address this?  How about SysVr4?

If this has already been hammered to death, then please e-mail
me a summary.

Thanks!
Erik Murrey
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