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From: peter@sersun1.essex.ac.uk (Allott P)
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Subject: Re: sleep()ing less than a second
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Date: 19 Dec 89 12:03:28 GMT
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In article <89348.231211BACON@MTUS5.BITNET> BACON@MTUS5.BITNET (Jeffery Bacon) writes:
>Given sleep(arg); unsigned arg. Nothing new.
>But what if you want to sleep for less than one second, say, 0.5?

It is possible to "sleep" for less than one second by doing a
selcect(.......) with an appropriate value in the timeval (5th param I think)
and with no channels to check (2nd through 4th params I think).
See the documentation for full details.