Sleep works with just one thread, but not 2

[finkus]

I'm trying to get a thread to check a file for updates, then sleep for half a second, then check again, and so on, until the loop gets a flag telling it to stop. The program compiles, but when it's running and it hits the Sleep call ( Sleep ( 500 ); ), I get this error in my console window:

'sleep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file

I have another call to Sleep earlier on, before the program splits to 2 threads, and it works just fine. They're called exactly the same way, so I'm assuming it has something to do with where it's being called from. The error message doesn't mean a whole lot to me, so I was hoping someone here might know what's going on.

[Ancient Dragon]

post code. I use Sleep() in multiple threads with no problems. Looks like you might have use "sleep" instead of "Sleep" (capital 'S') or ignored compiler errors/warnings.

[Quantum1024]

That error message sounds like you've done

system("Sleep");

which would be the equiviliant of typing sleep into the console.

[Ancient Dragon]

in MS-Windows os does not have a sleep command, so system("sleep") would do nothing, unless you also have cygwin installed, then it is located in /usr/bin directory.

[Tonto]

sleep.exe + more from Microsoft!

[Ancient Dragon]

thanks for that link.