thrd_sleep

Blocks the execution of the current thread for at least until the TIME_UTC based time point pointed to by time_point has been reached.

The sleep may resume earlier if a signal that is not ignored is received. In such case, if remaining is not NULL, the remaining time duration is stored into the object pointed to by remaining.

Parameters

Return value

​0​ on successful sleep, -1 if a signal occurred, other negative value if an error occurred.

Notes

time_point and remaining may point at the same object, which simplifies re-running the function after a signal.

The actual sleep time may be longer than requested because it is rounded up to the timer granularity and because of scheduling and context switching overhead.

The POSIX equivalent of this function is nanosleep

Example

#include <threads.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    printf("Time: %s", ctime(&(time_t){time(NULL)}));
    thrd_sleep(&(struct timespec){.tv_sec=1}, NULL); // sleep 1 sec
    printf("Time: %s", ctime(&(time_t){time(NULL)}));
}

Time: Mon Feb  2 16:18:41 2015
Time: Mon Feb  2 16:18:42 2015

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