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<h2><a name="sleep">Sleep</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p> A task for sleeping a short period of time, useful when a build or deployment
process requires an interval between tasks.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">hours</td>
<td valign="top">hours to to add to the sleep time</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">minutes</td>
<td valign="top"> minutes to add to the sleep time</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">seconds</td>
<td valign="top">seconds to add to the sleep time</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">milliseconds</td>
<td valign="top">milliseconds to add to the sleep time</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td valign="top">flag controlling whether to break the build on an error.
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<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<p>The sleep time is the sum of specified values, hours, minutes seconds and milliseconds.
A negative value can be supplied to any of them provided the total sleep time
is positive</p>
<p>Note that sleep times are always hints to be interpred by the OS how it feels
- small times may either be ignored or rounded up to a minimum timeslice. Note
also that the system clocks often have a fairly low granularity too, which complicates
measuring how long a sleep actually took.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<pre> <sleep milliseconds="10"/></pre>
Sleep for about 10 mS.
<pre> <sleep seconds="2"/></pre>
Sleep for about 2 seconds.
<pre> <sleep hours="1" minutes="-59" seconds="-58"/></pre>
<p>Sleep for one hour less 59:58, or two seconds again </p>
<pre> <sleep/></pre>
Sleep for no time at all. This may yield the CPU time to another thread or process.
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