Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Bug in Mingw sleep()

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

fabrice ilponse wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >>The following code is supposed to wait for 2 seconds,
> >>but it only waits for 2 milliseconds under Mingw (mingw-1.1.tar.gz with
> >>the latest runtime and w32api). With other gcc platforms (e.g., Cygwin,
> >>Linux) it waits for 2 seconds.
> >>
> >>#include <unistd.h>
> >>int main ()
> >>{
> >>  sleep ( 2 );
> >>
> >
> >Modify that to 2*1000 and it'll wait 2 seconds.
> >
>     Yes but that's not portable. :(
>     Is there a way to overide sleep so it acts like under unix?
> 

#if defined(_WIN32) && ! defined (__unix__)
  sleep (2*1000);
#else
  sleep (2);
#endif

Earnie.

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