BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Approval required: (fwd)

[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

>From owner-rtl Wed May  9 06:29:56 2001
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From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtl] putting threads to sleep
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I'm not clear on what exactly you are doing:
	1. If you want to put a realtime RTLinux thread to sleep
	there are many methods. The correct POSIX method is

	clock_nanosleep  -- for a timed wait
	pthread_cond_wait
	or
	pthread_cond_timedwait

	although pthread_suspend_np works fine.





On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:02:51PM -0100, Anders Gnistrup wrote:
> karl rentsch wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a problem I hope someone can help me with.  I'm trying to put a
> > thread to sleep but I don't want to tie up the system using usleep() or
> > nanosleep().  I've tried using pthread_make_periodic_np configured as a
> > one shot timer (ie. it needs to repeat several times but for different
> > time intervals) but it doesn't seem to work
> > Any help would be much appreciated
> > Thanks
> > Karl Rentsch
> 
> I am working on the same problem. What I have found is that the funktion
> sigaction
> can be used for that purpuse. Right now I do not know how. Is you find a
> solution I realy
> whold like to about it
> 
> Anders Gnistrup
> 
> 
> >
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