Re: Suspend() question

• Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 18:31:59 PDT
• From:
  Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com>
• Cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 95 12:16:48 PDT." <9509090317.AA12547@netmail2.microsoft.com>

In message <9509090317.AA12547@netmail2.microsoft.com> , you wrote:
> >    My question is:  Is it possible to make a suspend function that would
> >  suspend for less than a second?
> 
> Not portably.  There evidently exist a number of SYSV-derived unices
> in which getting a usable millisecond wall-clock time is not possible.

...in which case you could round up to the nearest whole second, right?
Functions like suspend/fork only guarantee that you'll sleep for *at
least* the time specified.

If you're trying to use it for some application which requires ms
accuracy, you'll lose when you start transmitting over the network
anyway...

--Ben

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