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[vdr] Re: usleep question.



Andreas Schultz wrote

> On Sunday 07 April 2002 13:12, Carsten Koch wrote:
> > ...
> > depend of the fact that usleep(1) sleeps for
> > longer than a MICROsecond?
> > After all, there are a million microseconds in
> > a second! ;-)
> >

> While looking into this, i also found something interresting 
> about this, from 
> linux/kernel/times.c:
> 
> asmlinkage long sys_nanosleep(struct timespec *rqtp, struct 
> timespec *rmtp)
> {
>     .....
>                 /*
>                  * Short delay requests up to 2 ms will be 
> handled with
>                  * high precision by a busy wait for all 
> real-time processes.
>                  *

Are were talking about ms (milliseconds) or µs (microseconds) ?




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