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Re: Poor granularity of usleep impl on Win32


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Poor granularity of usleep impl on Win32
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 06:22:11 -0600
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On 04/23/2014 04:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The gnulib usleep replacement says
> 
>   /* This file is _intentionally_ light-weight.  Rather than using
>      select or nanosleep, both of which drag in external libraries on
>      some platforms, this merely rounds up to the nearest second if
>      usleep() does not exist.  If sub-second resolution is important,
>      then use a more powerful interface to begin with.  */
> 

> 
> The 'sleep' replacement on Win32 calls into the Win32-specific Sleep()
> function which allows milli-second granularity. Why doesn't usleep()
> call into Sleep() directly, so it gets milli-second granularity rather
> than rounding up to the nearest second ?

Good idea.  I can work on that.

> 
> In libvirt at least, we intentionally use usleep() over sleep() because
> we really do want sub-second granularity, which makes gnulib's usleep
> replacement rather unhelpful :-( I'd venture to suggest that the majority
> of apps using usleep only need milli-second granularity, so an impl that
> used Sleep() on Win32 would be pretty spot-on.

You've convinced me :)

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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