[Unison-hackers] Unix.sleep insufficient for -repeat! Need half seconds.

[Benjamin Pierce]

Perfect.  So this change should be pretty easy, then.

Thanks,

    - B


On Apr 20, 2007, at 6:59 PM, Joseph Dunn wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:54:33 -0400
> Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'd be very happy to see this change.  Couple of thoughts:
>>
>> * One reason that usleep is not wrapped for OCaml might be (I don't
>> know) that Win32 doesn't offer something comparable.  Whatever
>> solution is adopted here needs to at least compile cross-platform,
>> even if the full functionality isn't available everywhere.  And it
>> needs to degrade in a graceful way.
>>
>
> The argument to the Windows Sleep() function is in milliseconds, so if
> that's fine enough granularity for you then you can make a cross
> platform millisecond sleep without much trouble.  Alternatively,  
> people
> sometimes use calls to select() to do sub second timings, but it's not
> the best way to go.
>
> -Joseph
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