.TH SLEEP 3F "13 June 1983" .UC 4 .SH NAME sleep \- suspend execution for an interval .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)