Re: Some quick questions

[Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>]

Stephen Masterman writes:
> 
> I was going to change them to rw for other but then someone could just cat
> a big file and redirect output to someone elses tty..?

That's what 'writeing' is...
 
> Second, I am under the impression that there is a POSIX system call called
> nanosleep() which allows a process to sleep an amount of time specified in
> units of microseconds (don't know why its nanosleep and not microsleep).

try usleep(3)

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