On 29-Dec-99 Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> From my own experience, altho I'm not that skilled a programmer,
> sleep()
> is not thread-safe. I believe sleep() sets a global SIGALARM, which
> is
> reset by every thread that calls it, and thus only the last one ever
> returns. Replacing sleep() with nanosleep() or something else that
> is
> thread-safe should solve that problem.
Stupid question time..
If that is so why doesn't sleep just use nanosleep? :)
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