Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "ALeine" <aleine@austrosearch.net> To: dipjyoti.saikia@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MDELAY() Message-ID: <200504151303.j3FD3Bhv073436@marlena.vvi.at>
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dipjyoti.saikia@gmail.com wrote: > DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something > like sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU > cycles by DELAY'ing) You may want to check out timeout(9) / untimeout(9), see man 9 timeout for details. > As I am pretty new to programming with Free BSD , can you help > me with some details about equivalent implementation(wait queues > etc) in Free BSD . Reading the man pages for asleep(9) / wakeup(9) should give you a good introduction. ALeine ___________________________________________________________________ WebMail FREE http://mail.austrosearch.net
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