Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!pvab!robert
From: robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: portable way to do nap()
Keywords: delay() in user space...
Message-ID: <325@pvab.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 88 23:38:15 GMT
References: <543@mpx1.UUCP> <27909@ccicpg.UUCP>
Organization: ERBE Data AB, Sweden
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In article <27909@ccicpg.UUCP>, nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:

> 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.

> According to the information given out at the SysVr4 Software Developer
> Conference, nap will be in V.4.

And since SVR3.2 is supposed to include most (all?) of Xenix, nap() should
be in it, too.
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