Top "Sleep" questions

sleep is a system call that suspends a process or thread for a specified amount of time

Difference between wait and sleep

What is difference between wait and sleep?

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How do I add a delay in a JavaScript loop?

I would like to add a delay/sleep inside a while loop: I tried it like this: alert('hi'); for(…

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What is the proper #include for the function 'sleep()'?

I am using the Big Nerd Ranch book Objective-C Programming, and it starts out by having us write in C …

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Tell Ruby Program to Wait some amount of time

How do you tell a Ruby program to wait an arbitrary amount of time before moving on to the next …

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Is there an alternative sleep function in C to milliseconds?

I have some source code that was compiled on Windows. I am converting it to run on Red Hat Linux. …

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time.sleep -- sleeps thread or process?

In Python for *nix, does time.sleep() block the thread or the process?

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Sleep Command in T-SQL?

Is there to way write a T-SQL command to just make it sleep for a period of time? I am …

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How do I create a pause/wait function using Qt?

I'm playing around with Qt, and I want to create a simple pause between two commands. However it won't seem …

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Javascript sleep/delay/wait function

Sorry if this question has already been asked here before, I could not find a suitable answer. I am wanting …

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Why is Thread.Sleep so harmful

I often see it mentioned that Thread.Sleep(); should not be used, but I can't understand why this is so. …

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