How to "sleep" or "delay"?

[John]

Hi all:

Is there a function to make a procedure sleep or delay for a few /seconds/minutes?

Thanks a lot.

 

[John Carson]

Hi all:

Is there a function to make a procedure sleep or delay for a few
/seconds/minutes?

Thanks a lot.

Yes. It is called Sleep.

 

[John Carson]

Yes. It is called Sleep.

My mistake. Forgot what newsgroup I was in. There is no standard C++
function to do this. It is platform specific.

 

[Sharad Kala]

Hi all:

Is there a function to make a procedure sleep or delay for a few /seconds/minutes?

No standard way. Your implementation should be offering a way though.

 

[Julie]

Hi all:

Is there a function to make a procedure sleep or delay for a few /seconds/minutes?

Thanks a lot.

Not a prepackaged (standard library) fn that I'm aware of.

You could code your own pretty easily. Something to the effect of:

#include <time.h>

// ...

void sleep(time_t num_seconds)
{
const time_t start = time(NULL);
while (time(NULL) - start < num_seconds)
{
NULL;
}
}

Pretty inefficient (wastes CPU cycles), but does the trick.