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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Vlad's suggestions |
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Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:32:56 -0500 (EST) |
>
> Dickey:
> >> | "You are already at the end of this document" and more useful
> >> | "You are already at the first document" seems to last too long
> >> | for me for INFOSECS=1, invisible for INFOSECS=0 or '-nopause' command
> >>
> >> | switch. I wish I be able to set INFOSECS=0.3.
> >>
> >> The standard UNIX/C function sleep(3) only accepts integers for
> >> its argument, which indicate the delay in seconds.
> >
> >It would be possible to use usleep if the system has it (in fact, that
> >would be preferable - 'sleep' has a nasty effect on buffered output on
> >most systems - pausing it - which I have not observed with usleep).
>
> Wouldn't setitimer(2) or select(2) be more widely available?
they all have limitations (I've been burned with a bad implementation
of 'select()', and don't know if setitimer() is more available, since
only one program I'm working on uses it -- for a noncritical function
that I wouldn't notice if it were missing).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
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