Daniel, It probably won't work, that is the timeout will occur only at 10ms, that is per tick(timer interrupt) Amit Daniel Marian wrote: > Hello, > The tick in Linux is 10ms. > In my userspace program can I have a timeout value less than this granularity. > > Example a timeout value of 4 milliseconds. > If this is possible, how is this taken care by the kernel ? > > thanks, > daniel. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/