Man Pages - Manpage for usleep
Posted May 26th, 2004 in Man Pages (Updated June 15th, 2004)
man page for the unix linux bsd command usleep
NAME
Usleep - sleep for the specified number of microseconds
SYNOPSIS
usleep [ usec ]
DESCRIPTION
usleep pauses for the number of usec microseconds. The default is 1 microsecond. If 0 microseconds are specified sched_yield(2) is called.
BUGS
The usleep program uses the usleep(3) function and therefore shows the same weaknesses by any system activity.
SEE ALSO
usleep(3), sleep(1), sleep(3), sched_yield(2).
COPYRIGHT
2001 Werner Fink, 2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
AUTHOR
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
This manual page was generated by The Electric Toolbox using SuSE Linux Professional 9.0
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