Re: usleep()

[Glynn Clements]

James wrote:

> why when i run the following does it wait 5 seconds then display
> .\.\.\.\.\ instead of displaying . [wait 1 second] \ . [wait 1 second]...

Because stdout is line-buffered by default. Either add fflush(stdout)
before the sleep() or use setbuf(stdout, NULL) to make stdout
unbuffered.

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