usleep - suspend execution for microsecond intervals
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ usleep() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Caveats
The interaction of this function with the SIGALRM signal, and with other timer functions such as
alarm(2), sleep(3), nanosleep(2), setitimer(2), timer_create(2), timer_delete(2), timer_getoverrun(2),
timer_gettime(2), timer_settime(2), ualarm(3) is unspecified.
Description
The usleep() function suspends execution of the calling thread for (at least) usec microseconds. The
sleep may be lengthened slightly by any system activity or by the time spent processing the call or by
the granularity of system timers.
Errors
EINTR Interrupted by a signal; see signal(7).
EINVALusec is greater than or equal to 1000000. (On systems where that is considered an error.)
History
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2001 declares it obsolete, suggesting nanosleep(2) instead. Removed in
POSIX.1-2008.
On the original BSD implementation, and before glibc 2.2.2, the return type of this function is void.
The POSIX version returns int, and this is also the prototype used since glibc 2.2.2.
Only the EINVAL error return is documented by SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
usleep - suspend execution for microsecond intervals
Return Value
The usleep() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, with errno set to indicate the
error.
See Also
alarm(2), getitimer(2), nanosleep(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sleep(3), ualarm(3), useconds_t(3type), time(7) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 usleep(3)
Standards
None.
Synopsis
#include<unistd.h>intusleep(useconds_tusec); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): usleep(): Since glibc 2.12: (_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500) && ! (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L) || /* glibc >= 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE Before glibc 2.12: _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
