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Re: retry doesn't work on win32?

From: Tobias Wendorff <tobwen_at_gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:32:43 +0100

Daniel Beardsmore wrote:
> Lars Nilsson wrote:
>> I usually end up using Sleep() in Windows. Of course, this is not
>> particularly relevant to the thread-subject (or so I would have
>> thought anyway, since the discussion didn't start out with how to do
>> something in C/C++, but rather how to script the behaviour).
>
> I remembered after I wrote it, that he said he was going to use a cron
> job to provide his retries. Forgive me if I am wrong, but in all the
> years I've used Windows, it's never had cron. It does have a
> scheduler, but not cron. So if he has cron in Win32, then I would
> imagine it must be some sort of POSIX environment that has a sleep of
> some kind :)

Of course, I mean the scheduler :-)
Received on 2007-01-17