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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: does usleep() sleep more than it's supposed to?
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On Feb 26 15:57, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> I'm writing an application that requires time precisions up to the
> microsecond level.

Though I love the idea to use Cygwin for everything, including stuff
like simulating the universe bit-accurate in realtime, it might be a
teeny bit daring to expect microsecond precision in an emulation layer.
You should contemplate the idea to use native Windows functions if
you need such precision.

Jason is right, btw., see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/usleep.html


Corinna

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