implement time delay in c

Question

I don't know exactly how to word a search for this.. so I haven't had any luck finding anything.. :S

I need to implement a time delay in C.

for example I want to do some stuff, then wait say 1 minute, then continue on doing stuff.

Did that make sense? Can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

Is it timer?

For WIN32 try http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687012%28VS.85%29.aspx

Answer 2

Check sleep(3) man page or MSDN for Sleep

Answer 3

you can simply call delay() function. So if you want to delay the process in 3 seconds, call delay(3000)...

Answer 4

system("timeout /t 60"); // waits 60s. this is only for windows vista,7,8
system("ping -n 60 127.0.0.1 >nul"); // waits 60s. for all windows

Answer 5

There are no sleep() functions in the C Standard Library, but POSIX does provide a few options.

The POSIX function sleep() (unistd.h) takes an unsigned int argument for the number of seconds desired to sleep. Although this is not a Standard Library function, it is widely available, and glibc appears to support it even when compiling with stricter settings like --std=c11.

The POSIX function nanosleep() (time.h) takes two pointers to timespec structures as arguments, and provides finer control over the sleep duration. The first argument specifies the delay duration. If the second argument is not a null pointer, it holds the time remaining if the call is interrupted by a signal handler.

Programs that use the nanosleep() function may need to include a feature test macro in order to compile. The following code sample will not compile on my linux system without a feature test macro when I use a typical compiler invocation of gcc -std=c11 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic.

POSIX once had a usleep() function (unistd.h) that took a useconds_t argument to specify sleep duration in microseconds. This function also required a feature test macro when used with strict compiler settings. Alas, usleep() was made obsolete with POSIX.1-2001 and should no longer be used. It is recommended that nanosleep() be used now instead of usleep().

#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE  199309L     // feature test macro for nanosleep()

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>    // for sleep()
#include <time.h>      // for nanosleep()

int main(void)
{
    // use unsigned sleep(unsigned seconds)
    puts("Wait 5 sec...");
    sleep(5);

    // use int nanosleep(const struct timespec *req, struct timespec *rem);
    puts("Wait 2.5 sec...");
    struct timespec ts = { .tv_sec = 2,          // seconds to wait
                           .tv_nsec = 5e8 };     // additional nanoseconds
    nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
    puts("Bye");

    return 0;
}

Answer 6

Write this code :

void delay(int x)
{   int i=0,j=0;
    for(i=0;i<x;i++){for(j=0;j<200000;j++){}}
}

int main()
{
    int i,num;

    while(1) {

    delay(500);

    printf("Host name");
    printf("\n");}

}