Re: [Boost-users] Boost::Timer problem

From: Simon Pickles (sipickles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-11 13:37:56

Yes, sleep is in seconds. I can confirm that through direct 
experimentation :)

Another forum helped and suggested I use gettimeofday. This works great, 
but doesn't shed any light on the zeros provided by boost::timer!

Linux user #458601 - http://counter.li.org.

Hughes, James wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] 
>> [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Benoît Dagon
>> Sent: 11 December 2007 16:25
>> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
>> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost::Timer problem
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> boost::timer::elapsed() return a time in second. If you wait 
>> only 10 ms second you'll not see anything. Try with sleep(10000)...
>>
>> Cheers
>> ~Benoît
>>     
>
> Isn't posix sleep a wait in seconds? usleep is sometimes available as the microseconds function I believe.
>
> James
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