In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-05-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The sleep statement does not return!
>
> Never, or does it just take a long time?
>
>> And this should not happen.
>
> Dude, it's MS Windows.
>
> It does all _sorts_ of stuff that it shouldn't.
>
> Having sleep() take orders of magnitude longer than it should
> is not an uncommon complaint for MS Windows users. There was a
> fairly extensive thread in this group about that problem just a
> few weeks ago. IIRC, disabling some other program or service
> fixed it for one MS victem.
IIRC it was something like an NTP daemon that caused the clock to "jump"
a little and (Window's) sleep was confused.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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