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sleep(3)

SLEEP(3F)  —  Unix Programmer’s Manual

NAME

sleep − suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

subroutine sleep (itime)

DESCRIPTION

Sleep causes the calling process to be suspended for itime seconds.  The actual time can be up to 1 second less than itime due to granularity in system timekeeping. 

FILES

/usr/lib/libU77.a

SEE ALSO

sleep(3)

4.2 Berkeley Distribution  —  May 15, 1985

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