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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 15:58:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: usleep bug?
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"Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de> wrote:

> Digging through the bug tracking system I found a bug complaining
> that usleep() doesn't work for small values. In the source I found 
> that it is based upon clock(), with a resolution of 50 ms. 
That's very bad.

> Is there 
> any deeper reason why not using uclock() for usleep()? The only one 
> coming to my mind is a wrap around at midnight or something like that.
> Any comments?

uclock fails on Loose95 because it reprograms the timer all the time and uclock 
need to reprogram the timer too.

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