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List:       gnuplot-info-beta
Subject:    Re: suggestion
From:       Alexander Mai <st002279 () HRzpUB ! tu-darmstadt ! DE>
Date:       2000-03-16 9:55:03
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:04:17AM +0100, Petr Mikulik wrote:
[...]
> What about adding a function msleep(miliseconds) or usleep(microseconds)?
> Linux has usleep(), OS/2 has msleep which is called _sleep2() in EMX. If
> such sleep is not avail on a given platform, then use 
> sleep(int(0.5+time)). 
> 
> Something with command.c: GP_SLEEP(sleep_time);   #defined in stdfn.h ...
> Easy to do? 

Please read the FAQ I specified. 
Based on my personal experience mostly the approach using select() is used. 
Has the same offical references as usleep (UNIX95/98 and BSD4.3) but seems even
more widely implemented.

What's the problem if the docs would state:
  a sub-second resolution is not available on all systems
? Since it's not an impoertant it doesn't matter in my opinion.

-- 
Alexander Mai
st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de

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