In message <395CA347.AE870283 at evolgo.de> you wrote:
 
> Hmm, select() seems to be the gcd of all platforms. Probably we should
> use this instead of nanosleep().
Probably dumb question:- select() is in the sockets libraries, yes? If
we use select(), don't we destroy the point of having all the sockets
stuff in an external plugin?

Is there no X related call to get-next-event-but-sleep-for-a-while-first
?

tim

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