sleep (3f)

suspends execution for an interval

Syntax

  integer*4 itime
  external sleep
  call sleep ( itime )

Description

  The sleep subroutine causes the calling process to be suspended for itime
  seconds.  The actual time can be up to 1 second less than itime due to
  granularity in system timekeeping.

Restrictions

  The sleep and alarm functions interact.  If sleep is called after alarm,
  the alarm process is never called. The signal SIGALRM occurs at the lesser
  of the remaining sleep time or alarm time.

See Also

  sleep(3), alarm(3f), signal(3f)