Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:06:32 +0200 From: Arjan Knepper <arjan@jak.nl> To: fybar <fybar@powersurfr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pause in c program Message-ID: <3B365658.24824777@jak.nl> References: <3B3637D6.ABDB4B0@powersurfr.com>
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fybar wrote:
> I am a newbie programmer running FreeBSD 3.5.1 on my laptop, I have had
>
> more success with this version with pcmcia cards. Anyhoo, I am writing
> a program that I want to have print out some lines at a certain tempo.
> Is
> there a function that will let me pause the program for a specified
> amount of time?
>
> I tried sleep, but I got some errors during the compile. Is there a way
>
> to call UNIX commands from a c program?
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main ()
{
...
char cmd [ 256 ];
memset ( cmd, 0, 256 );
snprintf ( cmd, 255, "some shell command %s", "some parameters" );
system ( cmd ); // execute sh-shell fork && execve cmd
...
sleep ( 1 ); // sleep for a second
usleep ( 1000 ); // sleep for an other ssecond
return ( 0 );
}
read:
# man system
# man -a 3 sleep
# man -a 3 usleep
Make sure to link against the stdclib:
gcc ... -lc
>
>
> My compiler is gcc 2.7.
>
> --
> fybar@nospam.powersurfr.com
>
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