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Re: [HACKERS] Re: sched_yield()

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-03-23T10:32:11Z

> Gee, I just checked and BSDI has it.  However, it appears to work only
> on threaded applications:
> 
>      #include <pthread.h>
> ...
>      If other threads are ready to run, the sched_yield() function forces the
>      current thread to suspend itself temporarily and let them execute.
> 
>From the Irix6 man page:

     #include <sched.h>
...
     The sched_yield system call causes the calling process to relinquish the
     processor to a runnable process of higher or equal priority. 

Looks like it should work here, but needs a different header file from BDSI.


Andrew

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