Comments on: doubts on delay & sleep https://www.emblogic.com/blog/05/doubts-on-delay-sleep/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: saurabh.aggarwal https://www.emblogic.com/blog/05/doubts-on-delay-sleep/#comment-762 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:14:55 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=2663#comment-762 @ nitin sahrama : so, is sleep and delay are similar????

]]> By: saurabh.aggarwal https://www.emblogic.com/blog/05/doubts-on-delay-sleep/#comment-761 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:12:15 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=2663#comment-761 DELAY is basically the wasting of machine cycle (time) or we can say that providing time within execution of two commands….

WAIT is like waiting for a particular process to complete…..

Sleep is, according to me the time period when no process is taking place …..(not so sure abt sleep) .

correct me if i am wrong..

]]> By: nitin.sharma https://www.emblogic.com/blog/05/doubts-on-delay-sleep/#comment-760 Mon, 14 May 2012 10:05:31 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=2663#comment-760 wait system call will halt your parent until one of the child process terminates.
if we use of waitpid(pid) system call, then parent process will suspend its execution until the child process specified by pid terminates.

sleep system call will suspend the execution of process for the time specified as argument

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