Hi Vardhan, > I get the following and the process seems to hang forever, when I call > nanosleep. The gdb output is below: > > #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () > #1 0xf7fc15f6 in nanosleep () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 > > What is this and am I missing some library. I have included libpthread too. > Your help will be greatly appreciated. extern int nanosleep(struct timespec const* rqtp, struct timespec* rmtp); In your code, what values did you pass into nanosleep in the struct timespec pointer (the rqtp)? For the second parameter (rmtp), did you also pass in a result timespec pointer, or NULL? Sincerely, --Eljay