Re: usleep not sleeping - maybe not tired?

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

 If you don't need to go down to the microsecond, sleep() works just 
fine for whole seconds.

 -mark

At 12/12/06 03:01 PM, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to get my program to delay for a certain amount of microseconds
> before continuing execution by using the usleep C function.  The only
> problem is that it isn't delaying for the amount of time I specify!
>
> Here is what I have in a RPGILE service program module:
>
>            temp = 'Beg:' + %char(%timestamp()) + ' ms=' + %char(Cfg.Sleep);
>            dsply temp;
>            rc = usleep(Cfg.Sleep);
>            temp = 'rc=' + %char(rc);
>            dsply temp;
>            temp = 'End:' + %char(%timestamp());
>            dsply temp;
>
> Results in joblog:
>
> DSPLY  Beg:2006-12-12-13.02.32.931000 ms=300000
> DSPLY  rc=0
> DSPLY  End:2006-12-12-13.02.33.811000
>
>
> If my calcs are correct, and based on the following url, 300000 microseconds
> should equal 3 seconds which is NOT what my joblog is conveying.
> http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-millisecond.htm
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com