sleep - sleep for a specified number of seconds
unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);
sleep() causes the calling thread to sleep either until the number of real-time seconds specified in seconds have elapsed or until a signal arrives which is not ignored.
Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep, if the call was interrupted by a signal handler.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
|Thread safety||MT-Unsafe sig:SIGCHLD/linux|
On Linux, sleep() is implemented via nanosleep(2). See the nanosleep(2) man page for a discussion of the clock used.
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