Re: using select as a sleep call

novickivan@xxxxxxxxx <novickivan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was wondering if it is valid to use select as a sleep call.

"Back in the day" when the only choices were select() and sleep(),
given sleep() only slept for an integer number of seconds, those who
wanted a short sleep would use select(). And back then one often only
got 10 millisecond resolution - and liked it!-)

With the advent of usleep() and nanosleep() however many years ago
using select() for short sleeps has fallen out of favor.

rick jones
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