portable way to do nap()

[Stan Switzer]

In article <1988Oct3.230916.995 at utzoo.uucp> Henry Spencer writes:
> In article <27909 at ccicpg.UUCP> nick at ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:
> >According to the information given out at the SysVr4 Software Developer
> >Conference, nap will be in V.4.
> 
> *Everything* will be in V.4.  :-(
> -- 
> The meek can have the Earth;    |    Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
> the rest of us have other plans.|uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu

Well, there you go again....

Nap costs absolutely nothing to provide and provides a useful function
which cannot be performed in any other way in Sys V.3.

Or is this just another opportunity to bash V.4?  :-(  :-(
--
The wreckless can exploit space;  Let the more  | Stan Switzer
temperate among us preserve our precious Earth. | sjs at ctt.bellcore.com