Subj : Re: Windows Suspend/ResumeThread API equivalent for Linux or POSIX?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu May 12 2005 04:37 am


"Chris Thomasson" <_no_damn_spam_cristom@_no_damn_comcast.net_spam> wrote in 
message news:K9udnfCOipwPbB_fRVn-2g@comcast.com...

>>> If you can't guarantee this with 100% certainty, then using 
>>> SuspendThread is like playing with a lit stick of dynamite.

>>    You never can. You never know when a libarary might commandeer your 
>> thread and go near a sync object.

> I have total control over the research application. It has never had any 
> problems with some other library hijacking its threads. In fact, what 
> exactly are you getting at here?

    I'm saying that had the POSIX committee included an API to suspend a 
thread, they would have to add significant restrictions on what any 
implementation could do. POSIX only does this when the benefits are 
significant. Here, the benefits are very, very questionable.

    DS

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