From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Oct 31  9:24:39 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.180])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1D737B401
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:24:36 -0800 (PST)
Received: from math.missouri.edu (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.166])
	by math.missouri.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9VHOaX37225;
	Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:24:36 -0600 (CST)
	(envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu)
Message-ID: <3BE033D1.B1E56DEA@math.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:24:33 -0600
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Organization: University of Missouri
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Arjan Knepper <arjan@jak.nl>
Cc: hackers FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Simple pthread question
References: <3BDFB5B5.5090102@jak.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-hackers.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Arjan Knepper wrote:
> 
> How do I suspend one particular thread without suspending the whole process?
> I can not use sleep or usleep can I?
> 

Also, if you do 

apropos pthread

you will see listed a whole bunch of functions, some of which may be more
suitable for you, depending upon your particular problem, for example

pthread_cond_timedwait

-- 

Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message