Re: [Mingw-users] Problem about Linux API

[LRN <lr...@gm...>]

On 21.06.2011 14:40, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> boost::this_thread::sleep() - probably is best
>>>> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -o hello.exe hello.c
> but if he is using C, not C++, suggesting boost is pointless. Anyway,
> the Sleep() in Win32 works fine, you just have to know that the
> parameter is milliseconds, not seconds. So using boost for this even
> in C++ code would be slight overkill if you aren't otherwise using
> boost.
>
Actually, the "correct" way of sleeping is WaitForSingleObject (), as it 
has some properties of sleep()/usleep() that Sleep() does not have, such 
as interruption.