unix-2.4.1.0: POSIX functionality

Portabilitynon-portable (requires POSIX)
Stabilityprovisional
Maintainerlibraries@haskell.org

System.Posix.Unistd

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Description

POSIX miscellaneous stuff, mostly from unistd.h

Synopsis

System environment

Sleeping

sleep :: Int -> IO IntSource

Sleep for the specified duration (in seconds). Returns the time remaining (if the sleep was interrupted by a signal, for example).

GHC Note: the comment for usleep also applies here.

usleep :: Int -> IO ()Source

Sleep for the specified duration (in microseconds).

GHC Note: Control.Concurrent.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. Control.Concurrent.threadDelay has neither of these shortcomings.

nanosleep :: Integer -> IO ()Source

Sleep for the specified duration (in nanoseconds)