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sleep ? Sleep for the specified number of seconds |
#include <unistd.h> unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds); |
sleep() makes the current process sleep until seconds seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored. |
Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep. |
POSIX.1 |
sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm() and sleep() is a bad idea. Using longjmp() from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results. |
signal(2), alarm(2) |