From: "florianx" <florianx AT drdos DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Bug in Delay
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:39:28 +0200
Organization: Club Dr-DOS - www.drdos.org
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Hi!

BTW:

I have a problem with delay();

I must use a delay() in my program, but during this delay() the TSRs seems
to be not active.
Why?

Bye, Florian


Eli Zaretskii schrieb in Nachricht ...
>
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Maurice Lombardi wrote:
>
>> > What I'm wondering is, if DJGPP's libc contains a delay() function
>> > which does handle short delays well (and even seems to use
>> > microseconds internally AFAICS), why doesn't its usleep() function
>> > do the same thing?
>
>If both functions used the same service, you couldn't have chosen one or
>the other, depending on your needs.  Having both is better than only one.
>
>Why is it a problem that they use different methods?  The docs clearly
>says what service is used, so the information is available, isn't it?