Re: usleep

["Lee Chin" <leechin@mail.com>]

Sorry everyone, I had initially posed my for loop wrong... I meant to say for(i = 0; i < 1000; i++).

Mark Hahn clarified the issue and usleep is not actually accurate (provably) and the man page actually has a disclaimer.  To me, it seems like usleep(2000) * 50 itterations actually gives a reasonably accurate 1 second delay on machines from 800 mgz to 2 ghz.

Mark Hahn actually gave me some more accurate code to do usleep too.  Thanks Mark!
Thanks
Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:21:46 +1000
To: Lee Chin <leechin@mail.com>
Subject: Re: usleep

> 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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