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usleep
—
#include <unistd.h>
int
usleep
(useconds_t
microseconds);
usleep
() function suspends execution of the calling
process until either the number of microseconds specified by
microseconds have elapsed or a signal is delivered to
the calling process and its action is to invoke a signal catching function or
to terminate the process. The suspension time may be longer than requested due
to the scheduling of other activity by the system.
The microseconds argument must be less than 1,000,000. If the value of microseconds is 0, then the call has no effect.
usleep
() returns 0. Otherwise,
it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.
usleep
() function may fail if:
EINVAL
]usleep
() function conforms to
X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2
(“XPG4.2”). It later appeared in the POSIX standard, but
in IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 (“POSIX.1”) it
was marked as legacy and the use of
nanosleep(2) was recommended
instead. The IEEE Std 1003.1-2008
(“POSIX.1”) revision removed
usleep
() from the specification.
usleep
() function appeared in
4.3BSD.
April 29, 2010 | NetBSD 9.0 |