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From: herder@myab.se (Jan Herder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: portable way to do nap()
Keywords: delay() in user space...
Message-ID: <444@myab.se>
Date: 4 Oct 88 14:25:34 GMT
References: <543@mpx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: herder@myab.UUCP (Jan Herder)
Organization: Myab Gothenburg, Sweden
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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.
>Does SysVr3 address this?  How about SysVr4?

Since SysVr3.2 is a merge between XENIX and SysVr3 nap() should be
there. 

Another way under SysV is to do a read with timeout one a tty.

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