Re: Can't Lua ever sleep?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> 2017-03-06 8:35 GMT+02:00 Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com>:
> > On 6 March 2017 at 17:31, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2017-03-06 7:53 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
> >>> It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> >>>> I've searched the manual for "sleep", "wait", "pause", "delay"
> >>>> and not found any except the pauses of the GC. Does it have
> >>>> a different name or must I load some module?
> >>>
> >>>   In the context of POSIX:
> >>>
> >>>         sleep() pause execution for a given amount of time
> >>>         wait()  pause execution until a child process exits
> >>>         pause() pause execution until a signal happens
> >>>         delay   there is no spoon
> >>>
> >>>   -spc (So what exactly are you trying to achieve?)
> >>
> >> A semi-animated slideshow in lcurses. I have a Turbo Pascal
> >> mindset when it comes to fullscreen text apps. Unit Crt used to
> >> have a "Delay", lcurses seems not to.
> >
> > Do you actually want to sleep for X seconds?
> > Or do you want to sleep for X seconds *or* until input is received?
> > (e.g. to allow pressing 'space' to go forwards a slide manually)
> 
> I can imagine that one would crave for the latter sooner or later,
> although for now the former will do.

  Then you want to look up select(), poll(), epoll() or kqueue(), depending
upon your operating system.

  -spc (Don't know the Windows equivalent ... )