Pausing my prog with ftime()????????

[metamorphy]

I am currently using the following code to make my program pause 10 seconds. It then checks for the existence of a file. If the file is found the program executes a new section of code. Otherwise it keeps on checking. Unfortunately, making my program pause in this way seems to use a lot of system resources. Is there a better way to do this so that other programs that are running are not slowed down.

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/timeb.h>
struct timeb xtime;
struct timeb ytime;
long time1;
long time2;

void wait10()
{
ftime(&xtime);
time1 = xtime.time;

while (!check_time())
{}
//Search for the existence of a file.

}

check_time()
{
ftime(&ytime);
time2= ytime.time;
if (time2 - time1 >= 10)
{return 1;}
else
{return 0;}
}

 

[Jay1Roy]

Try using sleep() instead...

Roy.

 

[metamorphy]

I tried sleep(), but I cannot find the right header file to include. My OS is Windows98 and I am using microsoft visual c++ as a compiler. Any suggestions??

 

[Leibnitz]

Well,the correct header you need to include in this case is:
&quot;windows.h&quot;.