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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: portable way to do nap()
Keywords: delay() in user space...
Message-ID: <8258@alice.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 17:25:08 GMT
References: <543@mpx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <543@mpx1.UUCP> erik@mpx1.UUCP (Erik Murrey) writes:
>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):
>
I opened my Unix V9 manual, and yes of course, nap(2) is there.
So if you wait a few years until the System-V people pick up this
idea from research (took a while with streams too as I recall)
nap() will become portable.

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