From: jfid@mfltd.co.uk (James Fidell) Subject: Re: delay less than 1 second? Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 13:24:39 GMT
In article <1993Jul23.124340.26346@jac.nuo.dec.com>, guineau@star.enet.dec.com () writes:
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>
> Sorry if this is in some FAQ. It's *probably* a standard Unix
> question, but it strikes me as one of those 'variant dependant'
> issues..
>
> I need to generate a millisecond (10's to 100's of) delay. sleep() takes
> seconds. Is there a system call in the Linux kernel which will give me a
> variable delay in milliseconds?
It doesn't exist on SYSV, but Linux appears to contain a fair bit of BSD-like
functionality, so you could try "usleep" (unfortunately, I don't have a
Linux system handy to check on).
James.
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