osf1 man page for lbolt

lbolt(9v)																 lbolt(9v)

NAME
       lbolt - Global Variable: Is a periodic wakeup mechanism

SYNOPSIS
       extern time_t lbolt;

DESCRIPTION
       You  use the lbolt global variable  as a periodic wakeup mechanism. Wakeups are done on the lbolt variable once per second. For example, if
       a kernel module was polling for an event once per second, you could use the following code:
	.
	.
	.  sleep((caddr_t) &lbolt, PZERO);
	.
	.
	.

FILES
																	 lbolt(9v)