What Can I Use Besides usleep in a Modern POSIX Environment?

Question

I\'m fairly new to C but writing a small multithreaded application. I want to introduce a delay to a thread. I\'d been using \'usleep\' and the behavior is what I desire -

Answer 1

The problem is that you are using a standard C99 compiler, but you're trying to access POSIX extensions. To expose the POSIX extensions you should for example define _POSIX_C_SOURCE to 200809L (for the current standard). For example this program:

#include 

int main(void) {
        struct timespec reqtime;
        reqtime.tv_sec = 1;
        reqtime.tv_nsec = 500000000;
        nanosleep(&reqtime, NULL);
}

will compile correctly and wait for 1.5 seconds (1 second + 500000000 nanoseconds) with the following compilation command:

c99 main.c -D _POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L

The _POSIX_C_SOURCE macro must be defined with an appropriate value for the POSIX extensions to be available.

Also the options -Wall, -pedantic and -W are not defined for the POSIX c99 command, those look more like gcc commands to me (if they work on your system then that's fine, just be aware that they are not portable to other POSIX systems).