Name
sleep
Synopsis
sleep(secs
)
Suspends the calling thread for secs
seconds (secs
is a floating-point number
and can indicate a fraction of a second). The calling thread may
start executing again before secs
seconds
(if some signal wakes it up) or after a longer suspension (depending
on system scheduling of processes and threads).
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