I'm writing a production system and need some advise.

I need to keep performance quick and reliable.

I'm catching alot of signals so perls sleep() gets inturrupted alot.

I need a reliable way of sleeping for a specifed interval.

example sleep loop logic :
1. Get the system time.
2. run a sleep loop for X seconds
3. IF it gets inturrupted, check the real number of seconds passed since it has been asleep(via another system time call)
4. if its enough, break out of the sleep loop, else go to #2.


anyone have a better idea?

System details:
running perl 5.8
OS is AIX 5.1 dev, AIX 5.3 prod

In reply to need a reliable way to "sleep" while using signals by Abbacabba

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