USLEEP(3) BSD Library Functions Manual USLEEP(3)NAMEusleep — suspend process execution for an interval measured in microsec‐
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LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
usleep(useconds_t microseconds);
DESCRIPTION
The usleep() function suspends execution of the calling process until
either microseconds microseconds have elapsed or a signal is delivered to
the process and its action is to invoke a signal-catching function or to
terminate the process. System activity may lengthen the sleep by an
indeterminate amount.
This function is implemented using nanosleep(2) by pausing for
microseconds microseconds or until a signal occurs. Consequently, in
this implementation, sleeping has no effect on the state of process
timers, and there is no special handling for SIGALRM.
RETURN VALUES
The usleep() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The usleep() function will fail if:
[EINTR] A signal was delivered to the process and its action
was to invoke a signal-catching function.
SEE ALSOnanosleep(2), sleep(3)HISTORY
The usleep() function appeared in 4.3BSD.
BSD February 13, 1998 BSD