Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have read on the usleep man page that usleep is obsolete and should
> be replaced by nanosleep. It is done with the attached patch, together
> with some changes in configure.ac to find time.h. From a very quick
> search on the web it seems that nanosleep is available on windows.
> Some features of nanosleep aren't used by usleep (possibility to
> restart the sleep on signal interruption).
>
> I have only checked that it builds, not that it does what is intended...
>
> There is another advantage for nanosleep over usleep, it is that
> a gnulib module exists, in case we want to use gnulib for portability
> at some point.
>
> I can install that patch and do the same for kdbMonitorKeys_default
> if you agree on that change. Thoughts?
>
timeval tv = { 0, ...whatever.. }
select(NULL,NULL,NULL, &tv);
is probably more portable than nanosleep and is small enough to just
include directly in the Elektra source in an "_elektra_usleep" function.
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