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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: is there a 'wait' command in Ada
Date: 1996/12/02
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Hi Mike,
Have you ever thought of using the UNIX select function to implement a
"delay that doesn't burn CPU cycles or issue s shell command?
All you need to do is set all three of the file descriptor mask addresses
to null addresses, and point to a timeval structure initialized with the
desired delay time, and the UNIX kernel will swap you out until the time
has expired.  Works like a champ!
-- 
David C. Hoos, Sr.,
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http://www.ada95.com

Michael Feldman <mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu> wrote in article
<57smdo$9qv@felix.seas.gwu.edu>...
> In article <dewar.849411873@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu>
wrote:
> >michael feldman says

> OK, you asked for it...:-)
> 
> One would think that a simple delay followed by a Put would be platform-
> independently portable, but in this case the devil turns out to be in
> the details.:-)
>