Extracted from Pike v7.6 release 61 at 2005-12-30.
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Method Pike.Backend()->`()()


Method `()

float|int(0..0) `()(void|float|int(0..0) sleep_time)

Description

Perform one pass through the backend.

Parameter sleep_time

Wait at most sleep_time seconds. The default when unspecified or the integer 0 is no time limit.

Returns

If the backend did call any callbacks or call outs then the time spent in the backend is returned as a float. Otherwise the integer 0 is returned.