Thread: sleep

Originally Posted by ulillillia

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about Unix (never even seen it either) so I can't help you there. Short of using a basic timer system, such as the clock() function, I don't have any other alternatives. For proper use, you'd set a starting time and adjust the current time in a loop and until the difference is what you want, then continue on. Here's some pseudo code to give the general idea:

Code:

long StartTime, CurrentTime, EndTime;

StartTime = clock(); // set the starting time
CurrentTime = StartTime;
EndTime = StartTime + 2000; // 2000 milliseconds or 2 seconds

while (CurrentTime < EndTime) // loop until the ending time is reached
{
	CurrentTime=clock();
}

This wastes CPU cycles for no good reason, sleep() and Sleep() exist for a reason

Stop trying Sleep(milliseconds) suggestions, its for Windows. You want sleep(seconds). But then again, Why do you want to 'sleep' in the first place?