Michael Alipio wrote:
Hi,
Hello,
I have a script that forks a child. at the parent, i have a line that tells it to sleep for n seconds. Once the 3 seconds have passed, it will kill the child process. I noticed that most of the time, sleep doesn't count exact seconds.. most of the time it's longer. Is there any way to sleep precisely for n seconds?
Not really, but you can get finer grained timing using select() perldoc -f select Or the Time::HiRes module. perldoc Time::HiRes John -- Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -- Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
