James,
If you're using gcc, then the library has a "nanosleep" function which is probably what
you're looking for.  Check the libc documentation.

Good Luck.

By the way, do you have any relatives in the Boston MA area?

james greaves wrote:

> I need to implement sleep / delay with millisecond accuracy in linux user-
> space.  what is the best way to do this

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