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Subject: Re: [9fans] nanosleep()?
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> In porting the prof command from the Go distribution (src/cmd/prof),
> absence of the nanosleep() function seems to be the final stumbling
> block, at least for compilation purposes. =A0Any suggestions on how to
> implement it?

well, it is unlikely to say the least that the OSes we have will let
you sleep for precisely one nanosecond. I'd be surprised if they even
hit a microsecond reliably ...

For a first pass, you could create a nanosleep for plan 9 that rounds
to milliseconds and then use sleep()

ron