>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
>> Is it worth adding a check in milliwait() that setitimer()
>> succeeds before going into sigsuspend()?
Philip> And what do you do if it fails?
Better to dike out the whole setitimer/sigsuspend stuff and use
the old reliable: select(0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&timeval); to do the
wait in one call. If that fails, you just don't end up waiting,
which is no big deal.
(Perhaps look at using usleep/nanosleep as an option on those
platforms that have them? though the select() version is usually more
portable, so it may not be worth the bother.)
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