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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Delay for a fraction of a second in C
Summary: Only on the 6386?
Message-ID: <933@vsi.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 88 08:15:49 GMT
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Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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William E. Davidsen Jr. writes:
> There is a system call "nap" in Xenix, which is in ms. My notes on V.4
> indicate that it will be there as well.

Robert Claeson writes:
> In fact, the nap() system call is there in System V, Release 3.2.-- 

Hmmm.  Dollars to donuts that System V Release 3.2 provides nap()
only on the 80286 and 80386 processors; I find it unlikely that 3B2
will have the Xenix migration code.  In any case, none of the AT&T
3B2 C compilers currently shipping include nap() in the C libraries.

     Steve

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