select_sleep.h

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2004,2014 Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 */
 
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
 
/* select() sleeps _at most_ a given time.
 * (compared to usleep() or nanosleep() which sleep at least a given time)
 */
static void select_sleep (uint64_t usec) {
        if (usec <= 10) return;
        fd_set fd;
        int max_fd=0;
        struct timeval tv;
        tv.tv_sec = usec / 1000000;
        tv.tv_usec = usec % 1000000;
        FD_ZERO (&fd);
        select (max_fd, &fd, NULL, NULL, &tv);
        // on Linux, tv reflects the actual time slept.
}