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SLEEP(3)                                             Linux Programmer's Manual                                            SLEEP(3)

NAME
       sleep - sleep for the specified number of seconds

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);

DESCRIPTION
       sleep() makes the calling thread sleep until seconds seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored.

RETURN VALUE
       Zero  if  the  requested  time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep, if the call was interrupted by a signal
       handler.

CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001.

BUGS
       sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm(2) and sleep() is a bad idea.

       Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results.

SEE ALSO
       alarm(2), nanosleep(2), signal(2), signal(7)

COLOPHON
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       ing bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU                                                         2010-02-03                                                    SLEEP(3)