sleep function in C11

Use -std=gnu11 instead of -std=c11 (this works for both clang and gcc). This will cause the <time.h> header to define nanosleep.

Another alternative to nanosleep, calling pselect on a null file descriptor with a timeout, also only works with -std=gnu11 and not -std=c11

For an example of both:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/select.h>

int main()  // Compile with -std=gnu11 (and not -std=c11)
{
   struct timespec ts1 = {
       .tv_sec = 0,
       .tv_nsec = 500*1000*1000
   };
   printf("first\n");
   nanosleep(&ts1, NULL);
   printf("second\n");
   pselect(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &ts1, NULL);
   printf("third\n");
}

In the threads.h header there is the thrd_sleep function

int thrd_sleep( const struct timespec* time_point, struct timespec* remaining )

http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/thread/thrd_sleep

There in <windows.h> a Sleep function and in <unistd.h> an usleep function

Sleep take miliseconds and usleep take microseconds.