I have quite a few "service-like" scripts that I put into the background and then have them wake up on a regular basis to do something. I use 'sleep' for the timing of the wakeup periods.
My question is: How efficient is 'sleep'? I know of other OSes that just set a timer flag and the process isn't allocated any CPU time until the timer expires. I know that creating a service or even using Task Scheduler are more "proper" ways of doing this, but they are also much more work and would require a significant learning curve as my background is embedded systems, not Windows. I know that my lazy way probably has a penalty, but just how bad is it? Thanks -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
