Re: [Caml-list] Waiting for float time

["Matthieu Dubuget" <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com>]

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2007/6/28, Bruno Verlyck <Bruno.Verlyck@inria.fr>:
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>    Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:15:31 +0200
>    From: "Matthieu Dubuget" <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com>
>
> Hi,
>    2007/6/28, Karl Zilles <zilles@1969web.com>:
>    > sayan@crans.org wrote:
>    > > I am looking for a floating point version of the function
>    > > Unix.sleep in order to suspend execution of a program for 0.7s
>    > Use select with no file_descrs.
>    Nice!  Where are this kind of tricks supposed to be collected?
>    FAQ, http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/, ...?
> Any book / doc on Unix systems programming ?


Fair answer. But I'm sure you understood my question, didn't you?

I faced exactly the same problem as Sébastien.

I had some OCaml code using Thread module, and, Thread.delay. Because of one
bug in ocaml compilers, I can not use Thread module (
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4173).
Not a very big problem after some thought, because the use of Thread was not
absolutely necessary when using my Ocaml code wrapped inside a shared
library. I then looked for a replacement for Thread.delay. I still needed to
wait some (small amount of time) without pooling.

Sorry if I'm not a unix guru, but the fact is that I did not find the
Unix.select solution.

So. Suppose there is some short tricks/recipes list about OCaml somewhere:
it may save time to beginners looking for such things. I asked the question,
because maybe, there is already such a place? (the caml-list archive since
today, at least...)

Salutations

Matthieu Dubuget

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