$Revision: 5.0.2.4 $
Package: EXCL
Arguments: (seconds &optional ignore)
When the scheduler is first started or multiprocessing is enabled in the Lisp world, the standard Common Lisp function cl:sleep is changed to be equivalent to mp:process-sleep, which causes the current process to sleep but does not cause the entire Lisp world to suspend execution. This is usually the desired action. However, the original definition of sleep remains available as this function. Note its behavior in sleeping the given time is implementation dependent and may not be reliable under multiprocessing.
See multiprocessing.htm for general information on multiprocessing in Allegro CL.
The general documentation description is in introduction.htm. The index is in index.htm.
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