FYI: pathfinder/runtime/xrpc_server.mx introduces #ifdef _WIN32 ... #define sleep(s) Sleep(1000*(s)) ... #endif source//MonetDB/src/gdk/gdk_posix.mx provides MT_sleep_ms() that uses depending on availability) nanosleep() or select() on Unix and Sleep() on Windows. Stefan On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:34:25PM +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

Jennie, you introduced a call to usleep in xrpc_client.mx. How important is that?

The problem is, usleep is not portable. For one, it is not a Posix call (use nanosleep instead), and worse (in practice), it's not available on Windows (but neither is nanosleep). On Windows there is Sleep() which takes milliseconds as an argument (unlike sleep which takes seconds, usleep which takes microseconds, and nanosleep which has nanosecond precision).

-- Sjoerd Mullender

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