Can Unix sleep in terms of mili/micro?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <MUTCHLER.90Sep11140510 at zule.EBay.Sun> mutchler at zule.EBay.Sun (Dan Mutchler) writes:
>In article <84 at dlss2.UUCP> james at dlss2.UUCP (James Cummings) writes:
>
>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.

Plus it has a bad little side effect of eating up gobs and gobs of cpu time.



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