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From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
To: Lee Chin <leechin@mail.com>
Cc: hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usleep
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:21:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611232146.GA779@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030611225502.29651.qmail@mail.com>

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:55:02PM -0500, Lee Chin wrote:
> I would think the following code would wait for 1 second each itteration
> before printing hello, but it waits way too long.  Replacing the for
> loop body with a usleep(1000000) works great... what am I missing here?

usleep = micro sleep = sleep in 1/1000000 second incrememnts.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-11 22:55 usleep Lee Chin
2003-06-11 16:08 ` usleep Alan Bort
2003-06-11 23:21 ` CaT [this message]
2003-06-11 23:45 ` usleep Mark Hahn
2003-06-11 23:55 ` usleep Ray Olszewski
2003-06-12  0:17   ` usleep Mark Hahn
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306112015380.20310-100000@coffee.psychology .mcmaster.ca>
2003-06-12  0:38     ` usleep Ray Olszewski
2003-06-11 18:45       ` usleep Alan Bort
2003-06-12  4:14       ` usleep Riley Williams
2003-06-12  7:46         ` usleep Ray Olszewski
2003-06-13  1:23   ` usleep Stephen Samuel
2003-06-12 11:47 ` usleep Steven Smith
2003-06-13  1:16 ` usleep Stephen Samuel
2003-06-13  1:22   ` usleep Mark Hahn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-12  0:42 usleep Lee Chin
2003-06-12  0:53 usleep Lee Chin
2003-06-12  1:02 ` usleep Mark Hahn
2003-06-12  1:04 usleep Lee Chin
2003-06-12 20:43 usleep Lee Chin

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