How can I 'pause' the game for a few seconds (Unix-Solaris) ?

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Is there a way to ‘pause’ a game, say for 3 seconds with a simple function call, on Unix (Solaris) ?

Thank you,
Luke

2

How about just stop updating your game data? Bonus points for rendering a PAUSED logo as well.

3

Yes, this is what I want to do (“stop updating the game data”) but I don’t know how to pause the game for specific amount of time, e.g. 2 seconds.
Thank you,
Luke

4

It depends on your platform. Look for clock, time, delay, etc. functions in your related manpages.

5

You can try the well named sleep function.

unsigned int sleep (unsigned int seconds) Function
The sleep function waits for seconds or until a signal is delivered, whichever happens first.

If sleep function returns because the requested interval is over, it returns a value of zero. If it returns because of delivery of a signal, its return value is the remaining time in the sleep interval.

The sleep function is declared in unistd.h.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.5/html_node/Sleeping.html