Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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? :)
It does in FreeBSD. UTSL.
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