[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] delay

[From: Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com]

There's also sleep(3), which is not so ugly as using system().
select(2) (see bottom of the man page) can be used for more precise sleeping.

-Kimmo

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]On Behalf Of ext Aleksandr
> Koltsoff
> Sent: 31 August, 2005 09:52
> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] delay
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:21, rh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know what command to make delay time in maemo ?
> > And maybe with sample program ?
> 
> Your question doesn't make sense but here goes :-).
> 
> On command line use a program called 'sleep x' where x is the 
> time to wait in 
> seconds. Inside a program code use usleep or some variant. 
> You can also use a 
> travesty called system("sleep x"), but YMMV based on your 
> skills. In GTK+ use 
> GLib timers (they work quite nicely there without blocking 
> the GUI-loop).
> 
> ak.
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