On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:15:43AM -0500, Steve Purkis wrote: > Yeah - I've had a look at this and came to a similar conclusion... > but from the other end, just to be different :) -- unfortunately MS' > Sleep() doesn't give you to-the-microsecond control, but i figure * 1000 > to get milliseconds is close enough (if the coder needs better control > maybe that will come with parrot's threading support? ie, something like > java's wait() method?)
Does Microsoft give you (well, us) a select() implementation that really does honour the microsecond field of the struct timeval it's passed? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the most portable way of achieving a sub second sleep was to call select() for that period waiting on no file descriptors. Nicholas Clark
