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Revision 1.5, Thu Jun 27 18:11:53 2019 UTC (4 years, 11 months ago) by cheloha
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Changes since 1.4: +8 -8 lines 

DESCRIPTION: Be more direct about what delay(9) actually does.

While here, "delay" -> "interval", "busy wait" -> "busy-wait".

With input from jmc@.

"no objections" schwarze@, "reads ok" jmc@, ok ratchov@ kn@

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.Dd $Mdocdate: June 27 2019 $
.Dt DELAY 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm delay
.Nd busy-wait for an interval
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.Ft void
.Fn delay "int interval"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn delay
function busy-waits for at least
.Fa interval
microseconds.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr timeout 9 ,
.Xr tsleep 9