MDELAY()

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Fri Apr 15 05:56:05 PDT 2005


On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:46, Dipjyoti Saikia wrote:
> DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something like
> sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles
> by  DELAY'ing)

tsleep/msleep/timeout are probably what you want.

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