From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 14 21:31:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22622 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA22609 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA24828 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma024826; Sun Jul 14 21:30:12 1996 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA05393 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:30:11 -0700 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199607150430.VAA05393@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: sleep(3) man page To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:30:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "can't parse this" .. RETURN VALUES The sleep() function returns the number of seconds remaining to complete the operation. If sleep is interrupted or cannot allocate a timer it may will return the value needed to be passed to a subsequent sleep to com- plete the necessary delay. sleep() repeatedly until it returns zero may busy-wait until a timer is available. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com * Whistle Communications Corporation