NAME

       sleep - sleep for a specified number of seconds

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds);

DESCRIPTION

       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.

RETURN VALUE

       Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the  number  of  seconds  left  to  sleep,  if  the  call  was
       interrupted by a signal handler.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
       ┌───────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │ Interface │ Attribute     │ Value                       │
       ├───────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │ sleep()   │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe sig:SIGCHLD/linux │
       └───────────┴───────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES

       On Linux, sleep() is implemented via nanosleep(2).  See the nanosleep(2) man page for a discussion of the
       clock used.

   Portability notes
       On  some  systems,  sleep()  may be implemented using alarm(2) and SIGALRM (POSIX.1 permits this); mixing
       calls to alarm(2) and sleep() is a bad idea.

       Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM  while  sleeping  will  cause
       undefined results.

SEE ALSO

       sleep(1), alarm(2), nanosleep(2), signal(2), signal(7)

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GNU                                                2017-09-15                                           SLEEP(3)