.TH SLEEP 3F "19 January 1983" .SH NAME sleep \- sleep for awhile .SH SYNOPSIS .B subroutine sleep (itime) .SH DESCRIPTION .I Sleep causes the calling process to be suspended for .I itime seconds. The actual time can be up to 1 second less than .I itime due to granularity in system timekeeping. .SH FILES .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a .el /usr/lib/libU77.a .SH "SEE ALSO" sleep(3)