RE: Delay less than a second

The following "C" program allows you to pass in the number of microseconds
to wait (1,000,000 = one second).  So for 1/100 of a second, should be about
10,000 microseconds.....  I'm sure that if my math is wrong someone will
point it out :).... It will also pass back a return code if the sleep failed
for some reason.  You should probably expect a -1 back if you are waiting
less than one second.


#include <unistd.h>
#include <decimal.h>

void cp_delay(decimal(9,0) *duration, decimal(9,0) *return_code)
{                                                                       
   /* 400 uses four byte integers */                                    
   /* should be large enough to hold 4294967296 */                      
   /* or approximately 4295 seconds */                                  
   /* or approximately 72 minutes */                                    
   /* or over 1 hour */                                        
   int number_of_microseconds;                                          
   int whole_seconds;                                                   
   int fractional_seconds;                                              
                                                                        
   *return_code = 0;                                                    
                                                                           
   number_of_microseconds = *duration;                            
                                                                  
   whole_seconds = number_of_microseconds / 1000000;              
                                                                  
   fractional_seconds = number_of_microseconds -                  
                        (whole_seconds * 1000000);                
                                                                  
/* sleep == -1 if sleep failed */                                 
   if (sleep(whole_seconds) == -1)                                
      *return_code = 1;                                           
                                                                  
/* usleep == -1 if usleep failed */                               
   if (usleep(fractional_seconds) == -1)                          
      *return_code = 2;                                           
                                                                  
   return;                                                        
}                                                                 
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Dan Rasch
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Delay less than a second



Does anyone know how to delay a job less than a second?
One-hundredth of a second would be ideal.



Dan Rasch - because if the human species concentrated on the really 
important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles!
IBM Certified twice....... but still a couple PTFs away from Nirvana.

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