Subj : Re: Windows Suspend/ResumeThread API equivalent for Linux or POSIX?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Wed May 11 2005 12:09 am

> Why do you think you need to suspend a thread?

In order to call the Windows GetThreadContext Thread API, you need to use 
the Resume/SuspendThread API. I am reading thread context and comparing 
against deferred pointers in a modified SMR polling algorithm; You can 
eliminate the hazard pointer reload and compare by doing this.

I was wondering if Linux and/or POSIX has a way to get thread context and if 
it was similar to the way windows does it. Something like:

pthread_suspend_np( pthread_t, ucontext_t* );
pthread_resume_np( pthread_t );

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