to sleep() or not to Sleep()

[liquiz]

I just recently had need of adding a sleep to a program I was working on.  Since the program compiles under both Linux and Pelles C I try and avoid using any windows specific features.

Under Linux gcc there is a header unistd.h that contains the sleep() command.
Under Windows/Pelles C/MSVC there is a header windows.h that contains Sleep().

I looked at he unistd.h file that Pelles C includes during install and there appears to be a commented out sleep().


Questions:
1.  Why is it commented out.
2.  Any chance of getting it added "back" in.

I just really hate using #if/#endif

Peace,
Liquiz

[Pelle]

1.  Why is it commented out.

Most of the functions commented out in unistd.h are hard to implement on Windows. If I understand Posix correctly, the sleep() function can be interrupted by a signal. This complicate things...

2.  Any chance of getting it added "back" in.

Maybe. Considering the few signals that can be supported on Windows, in practice we are probably talking about Ctrl+C... It might be possible to support it...

Pelle