NAME 

sleep - Sleep for the specified number of seconds

SYNOPSIS 

#include <unistd.h>

unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);

DESCRIPTION 

sleep() makes the current process 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.

CONFORMING TO 

POSIX.1-2001.

BUGS 

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

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

SEE ALSO 

alarm(2), signal(2)