Re: Short sleep precision

[Chris Friesen]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > You can spin on the gettimeofday() result in userspace.
>
>
> How can I use it?

Something like:

gettimeofday(&curtime,0);
add_usecs(&curtime,  time_to_sleep);
do {
	gettimeofday(&curtime,0);
} while (time_before(&curtime, &expiry);


Of course, if someone changes the system time on you you're screwed....

Chris
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