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Don't you mean a millisecond long sleep? I never saw a sleep function that interpreted its parameter as seconds. Edit: Well, now I know better.

Both the POSIX sleep() program and the sleep(unsigned int seconds) function in unistd.h interpret the argument as seconds.

It does on Linux, from `man 3 sleep`:

This is what I was going on, I checked that man page, incredulously...