Re: select and miliseconds

Aleksandar Bakic (bakicale@cps.msu.edu)
Sun, 25 May 1997 19:04:46 -0400 (EDT)

Sorry, I was talking about select(), not Guile's `select'. I mean, it
is fine as it is now, after the change (as written in NEWS).

Aleksandar

>
> I also think it is supposed to (I haven't found any information in man
> pages that would state the opposite), but it doesn't. I guess it is
> fine to use microseconds in the Guile wrapper for `select'.
>
> Aleksandar
>
> >
> >
> > >It seems that, at least on Sun machines, select() is not sensitive to
> > >timeout values less than 1 milisecond (if you use any value less than
> > >1000 microseconds and use select in a loop, you will reach 100% CPU
> > >utilization soon). That is probably the reason why Guile's select
> > >doesn't (yet) support microseconds.
> >
> > It doesn't? It's supposed to:
> >
> > In NEWS:
> >
> [...]
> 

-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu