Re: Before releasing Gambas 3.21.4 - Timers test failure

[Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Because that freezes the execution... hands are faster than mind.

Jussi

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 12:29 AM Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Why Gambas "sleep" does not straight up use the system command? Isn't it
> POSIX command..?
>
>
> Jussi
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> I checked, and indeed the Sleep instruction repeats the system call
>>> until the specified time elapses.
>>>
>>> So the difference between the specified time and the actual duration of
>>> the instruction should come from the system.
>>>
>>
>> And why this should not be tested?
>> If someone expects and relies on "Sleep 1"  sleeping for 1 second and
>> your implementation cannot do that, then it should be fixed, no?
>> Of course it is useful to give some tolerances for it.
>>
>>
>> Jussi
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