Re: How do you sleep?

I usually use 4-arg select, because the first time I needed to sleep for a split-second, Time::HiRes didn't exist yet.

Besides, 4-arg select() works the same way it works in C.

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Re^2: How do you sleep? by jh- (Scribe) on Jan 27, 2009 at 17:34 UTC
"Besides, 4-arg select() works the same way it works in C." I'm not exactly a C guru, so could you elaborate a bit on what you meant with that? Does select() behave differently on some situations than Time::HiRes::sleep or other alternatives (e.g. how signals are handled)?	[reply]
Re^3: How do you sleep? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 27, 2009 at 20:04 UTC
I just mean that it works the same way as in C - same arguments, same behaviour, nothing new to learn. I assume (but the documentation doesn't make it clear) that Time::HiRes::sleep suffers from the same problem as CORE::sleep(): on many platforms, sleep() is implemented using alarm().	[reply]