portable way to do nap()

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Fri Oct 14 09:30:45 AEST 1988


In article <10852 at bellcore.bellcore.com> sjs at ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer) writes:
>Nap costs absolutely nothing to provide and provides a useful function
>which cannot be performed in any other way in Sys V.3.

Sorry, the cost is not zero, not in the real world.  Especially when AT&T
is doing it.  However, I personally don't have it in for nap, particularly;
I just dislike the V.4 policy of "if you ever wanted it, or even if you
didn't, no matter what it is or how stupid it is, it's in V.4".
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