portable way to do nap()
Jan Herder
herder at myab.se
Wed Oct 5 00:25:34 AEST 1988
In article <543 at mpx1.UUCP> erik at mpx1.UUCP (Erik Murrey) writes:
>How can I do a portable nap()? A nap() (under XENIX) allows
>a user process to block for a short time, usually a few hundred ms.
>Does SysVr3 address this? How about SysVr4?
Since SysVr3.2 is a merge between XENIX and SysVr3 nap() should be
there.
Another way under SysV is to do a read with timeout one a tty.
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