Can't get usleep() to work, returns -1

[Dave Korn]

On 07 August 2007 16:35, Neil Jansen wrote:

> I'm trying to write a serial port app with GCC.  I need to insert a
> 100ms delay between commands, and I'm trying to do with with the
> usleep() function.  When I do this it returns -1.

  http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST.  It http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WJFFM.

> Is there a way to get this to work, or possibly could someone
> recommend another millisecond delay routine?

  The way to get it to work will probably turn out to be "using it correctly".
My testcase:

/artimi/chips $ cat us.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main (int argc, const char **argv)
{
  int rv, dtime;
  if (argc >= 2)
  {
    dtime = atoi (argv[1]);
  }
  else
  {
    dtime = 100 * 1000;
  }
  printf ("delay %dus. Start now:\n", dtime); fflush (NULL);
  rv = usleep (dtime);
  printf ("Finished... "); fflush (NULL);
  printf ("ret val %d errno %d\n", rv, errno);
  return 0;
}

/artimi/chips $ gcc -g -O2 -o us ./us.c
/artimi/chips $ time ./us.exe
delay 100000us. Start now:
Finished... ret val 0 errno 0

real    0m0.266s
user    0m0.171s
sys     0m0.000s
/artimi/chips $ time ./us.exe  1000000
delay 1000000us. Start now:
Finished... ret val 0 errno 0

real    0m1.156s
user    0m0.171s
sys     0m0.000s
/artimi/chips $

shows usleep working with no problems, so I think the bug is most likely in
your program.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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