NAME
usleep —
suspend process execution for an
interval measured in microseconds
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<unistd.h>
int
usleep(useconds_t
microseconds);
DESCRIPTION
Theusleep()
function suspends execution of the calling process until either
microseconds microseconds have elapsed or a signal is
delivered to the process and its action is to invoke a signal-catching
function or to terminate the process. System activity may lengthen the sleep
by an indeterminate amount.
This function is implemented using nanosleep(2) by pausing for microseconds microseconds or until a signal occurs. Consequently, in this implementation, sleeping has no effect on the state of process timers, and there is no special handling for SIGALRM.
RETURN VALUES
The usleep() function returns the
value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and
the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The usleep() function will fail if:
- [
EINTR] - A signal was delivered to the process and its action was to invoke a signal-catching function.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The usleep() function appeared in
4.3BSD.