Can Unix sleep in terms of mili/micro?

[Dan Mutchler]

In article <84 at dlss2.UUCP> james at dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) writes:

   In article <24437 at adm.BRL.MIL> TAYBENGH%NUSDISCS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
   >
   >        Can Unix sleep in terms of mili or mirco second? I am aware that
   >sleep() can only sleep in terms of second. Please specify the Unix Dialect
   >when u reply. Thanks.

	   How 'bout:

   main()
   {
	   sleep_less_than_sec(25);
	   exit(0);
   }

   sleep_less_than_sec(x)
   int x;
   {
	   int i;

	   for (i = 0;i <= x;i++)
		   ;
   }

	   I'd think that would give you approx. 25 clock cycles, dependent on
   the machine, the load on the machine, etc.

Unless a context switch occurs, which is quite possible. That may
still be okay if times much greater than 25 clock cycles are okay.
That is you need a sleep that sleeps at least x milliseconds.

Looping is in general a bad delay because different machines require
different CPU time to perform the loop. Intelligent use of macros can
help this, but unless it is in the kernel where a context switch
cannot occur you can only guareentee that you will not return before
the required delay.
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