sleep

[ivandn]

Hi,

I am trying to sleep in my program for a half second.

sleep(1) appears to sleep for a second and sleep(.5) appears not to sleep at all.

I am doing this wrong or is there another way to sleep for partial seconds?

thanks

[Salem]

You could try usleep(500000);
to sleep for 500000 microseconds.

But bear in mind, it's still a minimum value - the operating system might decide there are more important things to do when the time is up.

[Yoshi]

be cheap and use the for() statement:rolleyes:

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Engineer223
be cheap and use the for() statement:rolleyes:
How are you supposed to 'sleep' using a for() statement?!

[cody]

by using an empty for statement :)

aloa
cody

[gnu-ehacks]

How do you know how long one for() loop lasts?

[cody]

You don't :)
That's why it's cheap ;)

aloa
cody

[Yoshi]

Or include the <time.h>
Do you have one?