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on windows sleep is in milliseconds and on linux it is in seconds ...<br />
use usleep or nanosleep to achieve what you want
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on windows sleep is in milliseconds and on linux it is in seconds ...
use usleep or nanosleep to achieve what you want

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I am aware of the differences b/w windows and linux and that's why I do a sleep(1). I am trying to do this animation<br />
Exiting .<br />
ONE SECOND LATER<br />
Exiting . .<br />
ONE SECOND LATER<br />
Exiting . . .<br />
ONE SECOND LATER<br />
....<br />
.....<br />
<br />
<br />
hongjun
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I am aware of the differences b/w windows and linux and that's why I do a sleep(1). I am trying to do this animation
Exiting .
ONE SECOND LATER
Exiting . .
ONE SECOND LATER
Exiting . . .
ONE SECOND LATER
....
.....


hongjun

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the above code will flush the buffers<br />
to turn off buffering, refer to this<br />
<a href="http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com/questions/20675234/io-redirection-of-printf.html" rel="ugc">http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com/questions/20675234/io-redirection-of-printf.html</a>&nbsp;<br />

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the above code will flush the buffers
to turn off buffering, refer to this
http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com/questions/20675234/io-redirection-of-printf.html [http://oldlook.experts-exchange.com/questions/20675234/io-redirection-of-printf.html] 


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I have this piece of code.<br />
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printf(&quot;Exiting .&quot;);<br />
sleep(1);<br />
printf(&quot; .&quot;);<br />
sleep(1);<br />
printf(&quot; .&quot;);<br />
sleep(1);<br />
printf(&quot; .&quot;);<br />
sleep(1);<br />
printf(&quot; .&quot;);<br />
<br />
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I want to produce some sort of animation but then it does not seem to work as expected in unix/linux. The code works fine on windows. How to make that work in unix/linux?<br />
<br />
<br />
hongjun
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I have this piece of code.

printf("Exiting .");
sleep(1);
printf(" .");
sleep(1);
printf(" .");
sleep(1);
printf(" .");
sleep(1);
printf(" .");


I want to produce some sort of animation but then it does not seem to work as expected in unix/linux. The code works fine on windows. How to make that work in unix/linux?


hongjun

Sleep Function

Kernel programming for Linux operating systems can be done with many different languages; C, C++, Python, Perl and Java, which are some of the most common languages used.There are also many different varieties of Linux, such as Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE.