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
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• BUGS
• SEE ALSO
• COPYRIGHT
• AUTHOR

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>

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