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Sleep for milliseconds

I know the POSIX sleep(x) function makes the program sleep for x seconds. Is there a function to make the program sleep for x milliseconds in C++?

Solution

  • Note that there is no standard C API for milliseconds, so (on Unix) you will have to settle for usleep, which accepts microseconds:

    #include <unistd.h>

unsigned int microseconds;
...
usleep(microseconds);