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From: hal@snitt.com (Hal Snyder)
To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
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Subject: Re: portable microsecond sleeps
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 18:54:53 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:08:34 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:

> Instead we have tried using select to achieve a microsecond sleep, but 
> when we run this on the unixware system it munches CPU time.

That is puzzling.  Not that I know Unixware.
 
> Any suggestions for other ways to achieve microsecond sleeps?

Does Unixware do pthreads?  I don't have docs handy here, but think
there may have been a microsleep in Pthreads.