Delay for a fraction of a second in C
Greg Pasquariello X1190
gpasq at picuxa.UUCP
Fri Nov 4 23:13:07 AEST 1988
In article <2804 at ingr.UUCP> crossgl at ingr.UUCP (Gordon Cross) writes:
>In article <1145 at orion.cf.uci.edu>, echarne at orion.cf.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne) writes:
>>
>> The Unix sleep command will only go in increments of one second.
>> let me pause (in the Unix operating system) for a fraction of a second.
>
>You are not going to be able to do this without coding up some kind of
>"delay loop" yourself.
>Gordon Cross
Although kludgy, you could do a read with timeout on some file descriptor as-
sociated with a tty. See the man pages on read(1) and termio(7).
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