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Asked: June 4, 20262026-06-04T15:37:29+00:00 2026-06-04T15:37:29+00:00

The Unix.sleep function can suspend the program for whole seconds, but how can you

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The Unix.sleep function can suspend the program for whole seconds, but how can you suspend it for less than a second?

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    2026-06-04T15:37:30+00:00Added an answer on June 4, 2026 at 3:37 pm

    The classical Unix solution for this is to use select() with no file descriptors:

    let minisleep (sec: float) =
        ignore (Unix.select [] [] [] sec)
    
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