Difference between wait and sleep

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ziiweb picture ziiweb · Nov 8, 2012 · Viewed 496.1k times · Source

What is difference between wait and sleep?

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MRAB picture MRAB · Nov 8, 2012

wait waits for a process to finish; sleep sleeps for a certain amount of seconds.

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