Problem with sleep and signal/alarm.

[Bob Bart]

In article <1991May6.153937.28635 at msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,
winnard at frith.msu.edu writes:
|> I'm having trouble getting the sleep function to work
|> under C when I use signal/alarm function.

The sleep() function uses the interval timer to do the sleep. This means you
can't use both simultaneously.

You can have your cake, but you can't eat it.

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