> | I made the same suggestion earlier but I don't know that anyone did > | anything with it. :-( It would be nice to know what clock sleep() uses > | on each of the major platforms. > > I saw it but didn't know what I could do with it, or even if it can be > found out in any very general sense. > > Looking at nanosleep(2) on a recent Linux system says:
time.sleep() uses select(), not nanosleep(). select() is not specified to use a particular clock. However, since it takes a timeout rather than a deadline, it would be reasonable for it to use a non-adjustable clock :-) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
