Re: Problem with usleep procedure

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Albert:

On Thu, 04 October 2001, "York, Albert" wrote:

>
> Can anyone tell me why the program below doesn't work? The program compiles
> and runs but doesn't delay at all.
>
> D delay           PR            10I 0 ExtProc('usleep')
> D  delayTime                    10u 0 value
>
> D PauseTime       s             10u 0 inz(30000000)
> D result          s             10i 0
> C                   eval      result = delay(PauseTime)
> C                   return

The usleep() documentation says that's exactly what it should do. I'd check the 
value of result to see if it returns a -1 and, if it does, I'd then check errno 
to see if it's EINVAL.

Your PauseTime is an invalid value for usleep().

Tom Liotta

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