Subj : Re: Linking without -lpthread doesn't fail??
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Igmar Palsenberg
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 06:25 pm

dmarkh@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> I'm calling pthread_cond_timedwait not pthread_cond_wait . I'm waiting
> for ETIMEDOUT. We us this instead of  the other delay calls because it
> a better job of relinguishing the CPU while sleeping. The others do not
> at all. At least not in programs running RT SCHED_FIFO.  It is probably
> the only pthread* call we use outside of a so called threaded app.

Isn't select() with an empty set an option ? It's also a lot more 
standard and less subject to system-specific issues.


	Igmar

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