From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent@snarc.org>
To: sayan@crans.org
Cc: Caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Waiting for float time
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:18:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070628101843.GA18053@snarc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46838A30.5060904@crans.org>
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:15:12PM +0200, sayan@crans.org wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, I would never have thought of polling for
> this. :)
>
> What about wrapping usleep or nanosleep ? These are probably not
> portable, but are there obvious reasons not include them in the Unix
> library ?
you have answered the question yourself;
the Unix module is unfortunately a lowest common part of what is
available on lots of unices, and also without "unsafe" stuffs (mmap).
That's why you have to do binding all the times when having specific
low level requirements.
--
Vincent Hanquez
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 21:55 sayan
2007-06-27 22:11 ` [Caml-list] " Karl Zilles
2007-06-28 11:15 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2007-06-28 15:03 ` Bruno Verlyck, Bruno.Verlyck
2007-06-28 15:29 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2007-06-28 15:57 ` Bruno Verlyck, Bruno.Verlyck
2007-06-27 22:21 ` Robert Roessler
2007-06-28 10:15 ` sayan
2007-06-28 10:18 ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2007-06-28 11:18 ` Bünzli Daniel
2007-06-28 11:33 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-06-29 10:17 ` Robert Roessler
2007-06-28 12:50 ` Thomas Fischbacher
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