Can any body explain me what is the difference among sleep() , usleep() & [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:] ?
What is the best condition to use these methods ?
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Can any body explain me what is the difference among sleep() , usleep() & [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:] ?
What is the best condition to use these methods ?
sleep(3) is a posix standard library method that attempts to suspend the calling thread for the amount of time specified in seconds. usleep(3) does the same, except it takes a time in microseconds instead. Both are actually implemented with the nanosleep(2) system call.
The last method does the same thing except that it is part of the Foundation framework rather than being a C library call. It takes an NSTimeInterval that represents the amount of time to be slept as a double indicating seconds and fractions of a second.
For all intents and purposes, they all do functionally the same thing, i.e., attempt to suspend the calling thread for some specified amount of time.