From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-17T13:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: alternatives to nanosleep / usleep ?

Hi,

At Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:21:04 +0900,
Dennis Newbold wrote:
>      I'm basically porting some C code to a Ruby program, because I
> think in the long run it will be easier to maintain and modify.  At a
> couple of points in the C code, it calls nanosleep to create a brief delay
> in sending commands to an external device (the host is alot faster
> than the external device, and in a couple of situations, you can
> send it a second command before its had time to complete the first
> one).  The delay times I need are  1/8 sec. and 1/4 sec.  As far as
> I can tell, Ruby doesn't provide access to any of nanosleep, usleep,
> and clock, and I have no idea how long:

sleep(0.125)

-- 
Nobu Nakada