What is the function of sleep ()?

When a computer program or a process goes inactive and the execution of this program get suspended for some period of time it's called the Sleep function. When the timer of sleep function expires the program will be resumed and get back to the execution process.

sleep in cpp

on Jun 02, 2022
#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>     //required for usleep()
using namespace std;
int main(){
    //usleep will pause the program in micro-seconds (1000000 micro-seconds is 1 second)
    const int microToSeconds = 1000000;   
    const double delay1 = 2 * microToSeconds;     //2 seconds
    const double delay2 = 4.5 * microToSeconds;     //4.5 seconds
    
    cout<<"Delay 1 in progress... ("<<delay1/microToSeconds<<"s)"<<endl;
    usleep(delay1);        
    cout<<"  => Delay 1 is over"<<endl<<endl;
    
    cout<<"Delay 2 in progress... ("<<delay2/microToSeconds<<"s)"<<endl;
    usleep(delay2);
    cout<<"  => Delay 2 is over"<<endl<<endl;

    return 0;
}

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how to use sleep function in c++ windows

on Jun 02, 2022
// to use sleep function on windows with c++
#include <Windows.h>
Sleep(3000) // based on milliseconds

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c++ sleep

on Jun 02, 2022
#include <unistd.h>
// ...
sleep(1); // 1s

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c++ sleep

on Jun 02, 2022
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>

//sleeping for 3 milliseconds
sleep(3000)

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sleep system function linux c++

on Jun 02, 2022
#include <time.h>

int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
    sleep(10);	// wait for 10s

    return 0;
}

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c++ sleep function

on Jun 02, 2022
#include <unistd.h>
using namespace std;

int main() {

cout << "Time sleep"

sleep(10)

return 0;

}

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If we want to put a process or a task to get into sleep for some period of time we use the function of sleep in C++. The sleep system will make the process sleep until the timer is reached to the limit and the sleep function will get inactive.

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