SLEEP

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3 )
Updated: 1993-04-07
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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.

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