On Tue, 2004-08-24 08:05:08 +0200, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso <fmmarzoa@softronica.org>
wrote in message <200408240805.08811.fmmarzoa@softronica.org>:
> >>       TOut.tv_sec = Wait / 1000;
> >>       TOut.tv_usec = Wait % 1000;
> >
> >So "Wait" is in milli-seconds? That doesn't look correct, then:)
> >
> >        TOut.tv_sec = Wait / 1000;
> >        TOut.tv_usec = (Wait % 1000) * 1000;
> 
> Sure you're right, but this is a thing that I do not understand. I made a 
> function GetTickCount to emulate Window's one based on gettimeofday and see 
> that milliseconds on timeval structure can have values up to 999999 when I 
> expect to found a maximum value of 999 as there are only 1000 milliseconds in 
> a second.

Notice, it's not "tv_msec" but "tv_usec", which is micro-seconde and
not milli-seconds. A small 'u' is commonly used instead of the greek
'µ', because 'µ' won't be properly handled by all email clients, let
alone in code to be compiled.

MfG, JBG

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