Sleep

From PortaWiki

On Windows it's Sleep(milliseconds).

Netware has delay(milliseconds).

OS2 has DosSleep(milliseconds).

At least in the mysys library (the portability layer in MySQL) the Netware, Windows and OS2 versions add 1 to the milliseconds. I'm not sure why this is.

You can simulate sleep using select with all parameters null except for the timeval.