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05-29-2007

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Sleep() not working

I have a function that quits a program when <ctrl>c is entered as per following code;

Code:

void quitter (void)
{
  clear ();
  mvprintw (QUITTER_ROW, QUITTER_COL, "Quitting...");
  refresh ();
  sleep (15);
  endwin ();
  exit (1);
}

This function is called thus;

Code:

signal (SIGINT, quitter);

It works, sort of. The "Quitting..." message is displayed, but only for about half a second. I can change the argument in the sleep() function all I like. It makes no difference to the amount of time "Quitting..." is displayed for. I thought my code would cause the "Quitting..." message to be displayed for 15 seconds before the execution ends. Why does it not work as intended? I tried it on another machine with the same result.

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