Re: [Chicken-users] posix-extras sleep

[Jim Ursetto]

Hmm, I just realized scheduler.scm relies on nanosleep(3) on UNIX, so I guess 
it is safe to use in posix-extras as well.  I'll change posix-extras to use 
nanosleep shortly.

On Feb 19, 2013, at 2:24 AM, Jim Ursetto wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> 
>> I would be ok with adding usleep to the posix-extras egg if you want.  I'm 
>> not sure if it should be a separate function or just override (sleep) to 
>> accept fractional values.  I'm thinking the latter.
> 
> Although not exactly what you asked for in your later message, I've 
> implemented a fractional-second sleep in posix-extras 0.1.4.  Simply (use 
> posix-extras), and e.g. (sleep 1.4) works on Unix and Windows.  On Windows it 
> uses Sleep(), on UNIX it uses usleep() + sleep() (since usleep > 1 sec is 
> illegal).
> 
> Jim