chickadee » nanosleep

nanosleep

Description

This module exports a wrapper around the POSIX nanosleep API.

Author

Pietro Cerutti

Repository

https://code.ptrcrt.ch/chicken-nanosleep

API

nanosleep seconds nanosecondsprocedure

Put the process to sleep for the specified time. Both arguments must be exact integers. Returns #t on success, #f on failure. If the sleep is interrupted by a signal, it will be retried once with the remaining time.

secosleep secondsprocedure

Wrapper for nanosleep. The number of seconds to sleep can be a real number.

License

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