4.3BSD/usr/man/man3/sleep.3f

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.TH SLEEP 3F "May 15, 1985"
.UC 5
.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)