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.TH SLEEP 3  2017-03-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
sleep \- sleep for a specified number of seconds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <unistd.h>
.sp
.BI "unsigned int sleep(unsigned int " "seconds" );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR sleep ()
causes the calling thread to sleep either until
the number of real-time seconds specified in
.I seconds
have elapsed or until a signal arrives which is not ignored.
.SH 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.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
.TS
allbox;
lb lb lbw27
l l l.
Interface	Attribute	Value
T{
.BR sleep ()
T}	Thread safety	MT-Unsafe sig:SIGCHLD/linux
.TE

.SH CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
.SH NOTES
On Linux,
.BR sleep ()
is implemented via
.BR nanosleep (2).
See the
.BR nanosleep (2)
man page for a discussion of the clock used.
.SS Portability notes
On some systems,
.BR sleep ()
may be implemented using
.BR alarm (2)
and
.BR SIGALRM
(POSIX.1 permits this);
mixing calls to
.BR alarm (2)
and
.BR sleep ()
is a bad idea.
.PP
Using
.BR longjmp (3)
from a signal handler or modifying the handling of
.B SIGALRM
while sleeping will cause undefined results.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR sleep (1),
.BR alarm (2),
.BR nanosleep (2),
.BR signal (2),
.BR signal (7)
.SH COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.10 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
information about reporting bugs,
and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
\%https://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.