sleep

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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

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
       signal(2), alarm(2)



GNU				  1993-04-07			     SLEEP(3)