sleep()ing less than a second
Tom Neff
tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET
Wed Dec 20 07:30:53 AEST 1989
In article <1937 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>[how to sleep less than a second?]
>Common names are mspeel (in ms), usleep (in us, but clock tick
>resolution), and nap (ms again).
>
> nap is xenix and 5.3.2 and later ...
However the argument to nap() in Sys V/386 is in HUNDREDTHS of a second,
not in milliseconds. V/386 CURSES provides a separate napms() function
for millisecond precision.
Go figure.
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