From: Kien Pham <xengren@yahoo.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:33:27 -0700 (PDT)

Re: sleep dunno work

--- Steve Cheng <elmert@ipoline.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Erik Thiele wrote:
> 
> > the sleep() system call does not work
> > (returns immediately)
> > if ggi visual is initialized
> > (Xlib target)
> > 
> > is this a bug or a misfeature ?
> > 
> > once ggiClose and ggiExit  the sleep call works again
> 
> sleep() fails because it is being interrupted by the
> signals caused by
> manual syncing.  The only way I can think of to get
> around this is to
> use select(2) or giiEventSelect(), but getting
> interrupted 20 times per
> second doesn't help you much, does it? :(
> 
> (It shouldn't happen on the XLIB target though...)
> 
> If you really want to sleep, the best way is to simply
> turn off SYNC
> mode (use ggiSetFlags(3)).
> 
> -- 
> Steve Cheng
> 
> email: steve@ggi-project.org
> www: <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/>;
Thanks. You inadvertantly solved my blinking problem. :) 
I knew about SYNC..but didn't think of it as the source of
the problem. 
                       ~K.P.

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