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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions - non-integer sleep
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions - non-integer sleep |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 08:53:23 -0600 (CST) |
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> > | "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).
Any problem with using a small select()-based routine if there is no usleep?
> (but there's a lot of things to do - perhaps the people who're interested
> in this could develop a patch ;-)
meetoo.
Klaus