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From: abhijit@pyr.gatech.EDU (Abhijit Chaudhari)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: delay..
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Date: 7 Mar 89 05:14:02 GMT
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In article <21330@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> aviz@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dr Algirdas Avizienis) writes:
>what is a C command that will do a delay(variable length)?

You can call the sleep(3C) function, which suspends execution of the current
process for a number of seconds (as specified in its argument). Unfortunately,
this cannot be used if timing is very critical (i.e. a variation of a few
milliseconds cannot be tolerated).


Abhijit Chaudhari
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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