Re: Sleep

I tried the following, with sockets being the best so far but it appeared to hang sometimes when running in the background.

the system call seems to hinder Ctrl-C.

Quotes from http://lua-users.org/wiki/SleepFunction:
Solution: Busy Wait

local clock = os.clock
function sleep(n) -- seconds
 local t0 = clock()
 while clock() - t0 <= n do end
end
-- warning: clock can eventually wrap around for sufficiently large n
-- (whose value is platform dependent). Even for n == 1, clock() - t0
-- might become negative on the second that clock wraps.

Solution: sleep command

function sleep(n)
 os.execute("sleep " .. tonumber(n))
end

Solution: select()

require "socket"
function sleep(sec)
 socket.select(nil, nil, sec)
end
sleep(0.2)

On 10/13/10 7:42 PM, Del Buono, Matthew Paul wrote: [
There's no built in sleep but it should be trivial to make a binding for it. I've also seen people use select() from luasocket for this purpose.

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