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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sleep less than 1 second Post 81801 by bjorno on Wednesday 24th of August 2005 09:02:35 AM
Old 08-24-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
If you have perl try:

perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,.1)'

That .1 means .1 seconds.
That works. It is hard to meassure the time but it is definitely less than 1 second.

Thanks a lot.
 

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Gnome2::About - wrapper for GnomeAbout HIERARCHY
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