[PATCH] getty: Wait until all output written to stdout hasbeentransmitted
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Jan 25 02:42:03 UTC 2011
On 01/24/2011 08:26 PM, Cathey, Jim wrote:
>> sleep(1) isn't sleep for 1 second, it's sleep for 1 milisecond.
>
> Que? man 3 sleep
>
> SLEEP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual
> SLEEP(3)
>
> NAME
> sleep - Sleep for the specified number of seconds
>
> SYNOPSIS
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);
>
> DESCRIPTION
> sleep() makes the calling process sleep until seconds
> seconds have
> elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored.
>
> ...
>
>
Huh, you're right. My bad. (And usleep is in microseconds, so I
apparently wasn't thinking of that, either. Weird.)
Rob
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