Shankar Unni added the comment:
If you want to modify time.sleep(), you must be careful of the portability:
Windows, Linux, but also Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc.
Oh, I totally agree. What I'm trying to do is to define another autoconf flag
(HAVE_CLOCK_NANOSLEEP), that does a feature
New submission from Shankar Unni:
I know that an earlier request to use nanosleep() has been rejected as
wontfix, but I'm filing this one for a different reason.
Today, timemodule.c:floatsleep() calls select() on platforms that support it.
On Linux, select() with a timeout has an unfortunate
Shankar Unni added the comment:
I'm working on a patch, but I noticed a similar issue in Condition.wait(),
which also keeps re-evaluating the remaining sleep time based on the current
kernel clock, with similar effects.
I'll try to address both issues, or we could open a separate bug
