Re: How to sleep?

From: Grant Edwards <grante_at_rosevax.rosemount.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:11:51 -0500 (CDT)

Berry Kercheval writes:

> >David Fox writes:
> >> Grant Edwards writes:

> >> > How do I do the equivalent of the unix system call
> >> > sleep(howManySeconds)?
>
> The obvious thing (to me, at least) is to define a C extension to
> add sleep() to stk. Here is such a thing I coded in about ten
> minutes, along with a simple test program. All you do is put
>
> (sleep nnn)

Way cool. I hadn't yet gotten around to doing any extensions in C. This
looks like a pretty painless way to learn.

-- 
Grant Edwards
Rosemount Inc.
grante_at_rosemount.com
Received on Thu Sep 29 1994 - 19:39:10 CET

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