pmpause - Man Page
portable subsecond-capable sleep
Synopsis
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmpause [-w where]
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmsleep [-w where] interval
Description
pmpause sleeps indefinitely, until interrupted by SIGKILL.
pmsleep sleeps for the specified interval. The interval argument follows the syntax described in PCPIntro(1) for -t, and in the simplest form may be an unsigned integer or floating point constant (the implied units in this case are seconds).
The -w option is provided to allow annotation of scripts with multiple uses of pmpause and/or pmsleep to identify a particular use in the process's arguments, e.g. as visible to ps(1).
Diagnostics
The exit status is 0 for success, or 1 for a malformed command line. If the underlying nanosleep(2) system call fails, an errno is returned.
See Also
sleep(1), pause(2) and nanosleep(2).
Referenced By
The man page pmsleep(1) is an alias of pmpause(1).