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> Elias Pschernig wrote:
>> Attached is a patch which should fix it, according to the reporter of
>> the bug.
>
> Why not just use usleep on all Unix/Linux systems where it's available?
> I've never understood why we use select when there are better
> alternatives for this very purpose.
>
1. select() is definitely available on all Unices so we don't need to
check its availability.
2. The last time I tested it (admittedly a while ago) select() was more
accurate than usleep() on linux.
Peter