DELAY(9)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 14.5, freebsd 15.1, nixpkgs unstable

💖 DELAY(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel Developer's Manual — this lil page is all about DELAY, and it's giving “wait a tiny sec” main character energy. 🦋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

DELAY — busy loop for an interval. literally the function version of “hold on, bestie, give me a microsecond.” 💅

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/systm.h>

void
DELAY(int delay);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea: DELAY delays for delay microseconds — and a microsecond is 1/1000000th of a second, fr fr. ⏳💖

That's it. That's the whole vibe. It's lowkey just a busy loop for an interval, no cap. 🌀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • pause(9) — the see-also bestie you should go check out. 👀💫

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This manual page was written by Alfred Perlstein. iconic. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie! signing off from the Debian side of things, dated April 20, 2013 🎀💖🦋

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