Subj : Re: Linking without -lpthread doesn't fail??
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 01:17 pm


<dmarkh@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:1128586872.311069.186080@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

> 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.

    Frankly, I'm surprised it indicated the successful creation of a mutex 
and condition variable. I agree, it should not allow you to create a mutex 
and condition variable and then not time out.

    DS

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