DELAY(9)

💖 DELAY — busy loop for an interval 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to DELAY(9), a page from the Kernel Developer's Manual, and it's literally the shortest glow-up in the whole kernel. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

DELAY — busy loop for an interval

like… that's it. that's the whole personality. she loops. she waits. she does not multitask. iconic behavior honestly 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

void
DELAY(int delay);

no cap, that's the entire signature. two includes, one function, one int. minimalist queen ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she DO? she delays for delay microseconds. and before you ask, a microsecond is 1/1000000th of a second — yes, one millionth. tiny. microscopic. a lil baby unit of time. 🎀

that's the whole description. she waits, and she waits by spinning, because she's a busy loop — she's not sleeping, she's not yielding, she's just vibing in place, burning cycles, main character energy, refusing to give up the CPU. periodt. 🔥

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• pause(9)

go read that one too bestie, it's the whole other vibe 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

this manual page was written by Alfred Perlstein. thank you king, we love a documented syscall 🫶✨

and that's the tea fr fr 🍓 — this page came to you from Debian, dated April 20, 2013, and yes she's been serving the exact same energy ever since. slay 💖🌸💅