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| author | Charles.Forsyth <devnull@localhost> | 2006-12-22 20:52:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Charles.Forsyth <devnull@localhost> | 2006-12-22 20:52:35 +0000 |
| commit | 46439007cf417cbd9ac8049bb4122c890097a0fa (patch) | |
| tree | 6fdb25e5f3a2b6d5657eb23b35774b631d4d97e4 /man/2/sys-sleep | |
| parent | 37da2899f40661e3e9631e497da8dc59b971cbd0 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/man/2/sys-sleep b/man/2/sys-sleep new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d8b91a56 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/2/sys-sleep @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.TH SYS-SLEEP 2 +.SH NAME +sleep \- delay +.SH SYNOPSIS +.EX +include "sys.m"; +sys := load Sys Sys->PATH; + +sleep: fn(period: int): int; +.EE +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B Sleep +suspends the current thread for +.I period +milliseconds. +The actual suspension time may be a little more or less than +the requested time. +If +.I period +is 0, the process +gives up the CPU if another process is waiting to run, returning +immediately if not. +.PP +.B Sleep +normally returns 0. In hosted Inferno it may return -1 to indicate that +it was not possible to sleep (eg if no more threads are available). +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR sys-intro (2), +.IR sys-millisec (2) |