Re^2: sleep()ing less than a second

[Chris Torek]

(This is not C, but rather Unix; followups redirected there.)

>In article <107 at mosh.UUCP> rolff at mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) writes:
>>>select(...) with an appropriate value in the timeval

In article <1989Dec28.091551.17731 at eng.umd.edu> dskim at eng.umd.edu
(Daeshik Kim) writes:
>Why not 'setitimer' ?

select() is simpler.  To use setitimer(ITIMER_REAL) properly, you have
to do much more work.  (If you use it improperly, your program will
eventually fail.)

The only disadvantage to select over setitimer(ITIMER_REAL) is that
it is interrupted by signals.  This may be an advantage in some cases.
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