On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, David T. Lewis wrote:

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:15:28PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tim Rowledge wrote:

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nanosleep(&sleepTime, &reminderTime);

Excellent - do you know if it actually portable to most unices, or is it likely to be a hit and miss affair?

It's a POSIX standard function. I checked (the manpages) on Irix and SunOS. For Suns, it seems you have to link with libposix4 though ...

-- Bert

It will be somewhat hit and miss. For example, BDSI does not seem to have it.

bash-2.02$ uname BSD/OS bash-2.02$ man nanosleep man: no entry for nanosleep in the manual.

Maybe in BSD there is some other short sleep than usleep?

From SunOS man page: "Interactions between usleep() and either alarm(2)

or sleep(3C) are unspecified." Which seems bad to me.

-- Bert