On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:15:28PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> > 
> > > > 	nanosleep(&sleepTime, &reminderTime);
> > > Excellent - do you know if it actually portable to most unices, or is it
> > > likely to be a hit and miss affair?
> > 
> > It's a POSIX standard function. I checked (the manpages) on Irix and
> > SunOS. For Suns, it seems you have to link with libposix4 though ...
> > 
> > -- Bert
> >
> It will be somewhat hit and miss.
> For example, BDSI does not seem to have it.
> 
> 	bash-2.02$ uname
> 	BSD/OS
> 	bash-2.02$ man nanosleep
> 	man: no entry for nanosleep in the manual.
> 

Maybe in BSD there is some other short sleep than usleep?

>From SunOS man page:  "Interactions between usleep()  and either alarm(2)  
or sleep(3C) are unspecified." Which seems bad to me.

-- Bert