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From: rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff)
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Subject: Re^2: sleep()ing less than a second
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Date: 20 Dec 89 11:53:03 GMT
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peter@sersun1.essex.ac.uk (Allott P) writes:

>>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).

In SunOS there's a usleep() that sleeps in milliseconds.

--Anders