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From: "Luciano Moreira - igLnx" <lucianolnx@ig.com.br>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>, ronkhu@ntsp.nec.co.jp
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (non-member) wait-notify mechanism in pthreads
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:02:36 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016801c30da7$fa4ebeb0$0b00a8c0@SPLUCIANO> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16045.13129.643228.647757@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk

If you dont need to execute something while waiting a thread to exit, you
can use only pthread API instead mutex, waiting a thread to join.

Luciano

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glynn Clements" <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
To: <ronkhu@ntsp.nec.co.jp>
Cc: <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: (non-member) wait-notify mechanism in pthreads


>
> ronkhu wrote:
>
> > Im not a member of this list but I've got a question:
> > How does one go about implementing a wait-notify mechanism in pthreads
> > in lieu of the
> > busy-waiting approach( which tends to be a cpu-hog)?
>
> Mutexes, condition variables, or POSIX semaphores. See the "POSIX
> Threads" section in the "libc" Info file for more details.
>
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-28 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-28  8:37 (non-member) wait-notify mechanism in pthreads ronkhu
2003-04-28 13:57 ` Glynn Clements
2003-04-28 17:02   ` Luciano Moreira - igLnx [this message]

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