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From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Delay for a fraction of a second in C
Message-ID: <450@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 06:56:37 GMT
References: <1145@orion.cf.uci.edu> <2804@ingr.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
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In article <2804@ingr.UUCP> crossgl@ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes:
>In article <1145@orion.cf.uci.edu>, echarne@orion.cf.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne) writes:
>>
>> The Unix sleep command will only go in increments of one second.  I was
>> wondering if someone new of a nice little routine I could use, or has
>> written one that will let me pause (in the Unix operating system) for
>> a fraction of a second.  If it could go to 100th of a second, that would
>> be great!
>
>You are not going to be able to do this without coding up some kind of
>"delay loop" yourself...

Unless you are:

	* on a BSD machine, with setitimer()

	* on most any machine with select(), where you can do a sub-second
		timeout value.

	* on a V.3 machine with poll(), which _i think_ has a sub-second
		timeout value.  (I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong :-)

-dB