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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sleep less than 1 second Post 81704 by sysera on Tuesday 23rd of August 2005 10:16:15 AM
Old 08-23-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by bjorno
Does anyone know a way to sleep less than 1 second?
Sometimes when I write scripts that iterates a loop many times it would be
nice to slow things down, but sometimes 1 second is too much.
If your system has "usleep" this allows you to sleep in increments of milliseconds instead of seconds.
 

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

NAME
usleep - suspend execution for microsecond intervals SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> void usleep(unsigned long usec); int usleep(unsigned long usec); /* SUSv2 */ DESCRIPTION
The usleep() function suspends execution of the calling process for usec microseconds. The sleep may be lengthened slightly by any system activity or by the time spent processing the call. RETURN VALUE
None (BSD). Or: 0 on success, -1 on error (SUSv2). ERRORS
EINTR Interrupted by a signal. EINVAL usec is not smaller than 1000000. (On systems where that is considered an error.) CONFORMING TO
BSD 4.3. The SUSv2 version returns int, and this is also the prototype used by glibc 2.2.2. Only the EINVAL error return is documented by SUSv2. NOTES
The interaction of this function with SIGALRM and other timer functions such as sleep(), alarm(), setitimer(), nanosleep() is unspecified. This function is obsolete. Use nanosleep(2) or setitimer(2) instead. SEE ALSO
alarm(2), getitimer(2), nanosleep(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sleep(3) 2001-04-02 USLEEP(3)
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