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On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 02:01:12 -0500, c186282 wrote:


> The ffmpeg command line required is long and complicated. Some literal
> stuff, some vars. Then I remember that 'C' is a total BASTARD when it
> comes to strings.

Only if you don't know the language. sprintf() is your friend if strcat() 
won't do. Consider that sprintf() returns the number of bytes printed.

char* ptr = buffer
ptr += sprintf(ptr, "sone value %d ", x);
ptr += sprintf(ptr, "another value %d ", y);

allows you to build whatever you want in buffer. (assuming buffer is valid 
memory and you're doing some sanity checking.


> Note neither 'C' or FP have a straight-up equiv for 'sleep()'. This is
> critical to my app. Turbo had something like it ... but it was like a
> legacy lib and not sure to be as accurate or versatile as Python
> sleep().

man 3 sleep
man 3 usleep
man 2 nanosleep

What do you think CPython is doing?