From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:19:27 +0200

Re: libggi question (sleep())

Steve Cheng wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> 
> > If libggi interferes with sleep() it's using SIGALRM, and that means
> > that you're using a version that can be considered prehistoric now.
> 
> Mansync thread uses sleep() too.

Well, I doubt that the debian package is using the threads version.
You probably mean usleep() btw ;-)

> I don't know anything about pthread programming so I put it there.
> I heard it could block the whole process too (not just the thread-process as
> in Linux).
> 
> That should be a select(), right?

That should probably be better, yes.

//Marcus
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