looking for synonym to sleep() in C

[fuzzylizard]

Hey,

 

I am looking for a synonym of the sleep() function in C program that will cause the program to halt to a period of time, but won't shut the program down in the same way that sleep() does.

 

My teacher mentioned it and now I can't remember what it was.

 

Also, I trying to find a really good online C programming reference/community. Something that is aimed at newbies and pros alike. Any suggestions?

[johnnyv]

what do you mean "won't shut the program down"? you may want to use the wait function look at man:/wait(2) in konq.

 

also for a higher resolution sleep look at nanosleep man:/nanosleep

 

take a look at this if you havent.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/ht...node/index.html

[fuzzylizard]

From what I remember from what my teacher said, sleep stops the program from responding to signals for the duration that it is asleep.

 

What I want to do is to create a little timer that will cause the program to stop for a second or two, but still respond to signals. I don't think I can do this with sleep.

 

I will look into the wait command.

 

The link looks great, thanks.

[DOlson]

GetTimeOfDay() or something like that? I don't know, I don't use delays unless I'm only testing things. I just use time-based movement and such things as that. And since I use SDL because I'm doing games, I have access to SDL_Delay(), which does sorta what sleep() does I think...

 

Anyhow, cprogramming.com is a decent forum and stuff, IMHO. But I'd like to build on this one here... No reason why not to, right? :)