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Function `core.thread.osthread.Thread.sleep`

Suspends the calling thread for at least the supplied period. This may result in multiple OS calls if period is greater than the maximum sleep duration supported by the operating system.


						
				static void sleep
				(
				

				  Duration val
				

				) nothrow @nogc @trusted;

Parameters

Name	Description
val	The minimum duration the calling thread should be suspended.

In

period must be non-negative.

Example


Thread.sleep( dur!("msecs")( 50 ) );  // sleep for 50 milliseconds
Thread.sleep( dur!("seconds")( 5 ) ); // sleep for 5 seconds

Authors

Sean Kelly, Walter Bright, Alex Rønne Petersen, Martin Nowak

License

Distributed under the Boost Software License 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE)