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Re: [Chicken-users] usleep?
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felix winkelmann |
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Re: [Chicken-users] usleep? |
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Thu, 5 May 2005 23:51:08 +0200 |
On 5/5/05, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there any reason why (usleep) is not included in the standard
> library? (Or, why sleep couldn't handle a non-integral argument, like
> (sleep 0.5))?
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`sleep' is a direct alias for the sleep(3) call. And usleep isn't POSIX.
(That doesn't mean that your suggestion wouldn't be useful - as you said,
it would be easy to add, but one has to draw a line somewhere...;-)
Usually I use `thread-sleep!'
cheers,
felix