Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[Michael G Schwern]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:49:56AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Also there isn't a portable way to do subsecond sleeps. Not that it's 
> stopped perl before, but on some of the platforms that perl 5 runs on there 
> isn't *any* way to do it.

Then how does select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25) work on those?  Or
doesn't it?

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