Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions

[dickey]

> 
> Dickey: 
> >> |    "You are already at the end of this document" and more useful  
> >> |    "You are already at the first document" seems to last too long  
> >> |    for me for INFOSECS=1, invisible for INFOSECS=0 or '-nopause' command 
> >>  
> >> |    switch. I wish I be able to set INFOSECS=0.3.  
> >>   
> >> The standard UNIX/C function sleep(3) only accepts integers for  
> >> its argument, which indicate the delay in seconds.  
> > 
> >It would be possible to use usleep if the system has it (in fact, that 
> >would be preferable - 'sleep' has a nasty effect on buffered output on 
> >most systems - pausing it - which I have not observed with usleep). 
>  
> Wouldn't setitimer(2) or select(2) be more widely available? 

they all have limitations (I've been burned with a bad implementation
of 'select()', and don't know if setitimer() is more available, since
only one program I'm working on uses it -- for a noncritical function
that I wouldn't notice if it were missing).


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