| Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 2002 |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
| Stability | provisional |
| Portability | non-portable (requires POSIX) |
| Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
System.Posix.Unistd
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Description
POSIX miscellaneous stuff, mostly from unistd.h
System environment
Sleeping
Warning: This function has several shortcomings (see documentation). Please consider using Control.Concurrent.threadDelay instead.
Sleep for the specified duration (in seconds). Returns the time remaining (if the sleep was interrupted by a signal, for example).
GHC Note: threadDelay is a better choice. Since GHC
uses signals for its internal clock, a call to sleep will usually be
interrupted immediately. That makes sleep unusable in a program compiled
with GHC, unless the RTS timer is disabled (with +RTS -V0). Furthermore,
without the -threaded option, sleep will block all other user threads.
Even with the -threaded option, sleep requires a full OS thread to
itself. threadDelay has none of these shortcomings.
Sleep for the specified duration (in microseconds).
GHC Note: threadDelay is a better choice.
Without the -threaded option, usleep will block all other user
threads. Even with the -threaded option, usleep requires a
full OS thread to itself. threadDelay has
neither of these shortcomings.