From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 7 16:05:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14221 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14190 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 16:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tnt40.wcc.net [208.10.139.40]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22268; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:53:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26476; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:57:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:57:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804072257.RAA26476@detlev.UUCP> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net CC: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199804072207.RAA00588@dyson.iquest.net> (toor@dyson.iquest.net) Subject: Re: kernel support for memory semaphores/locks... From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199804072207.RAA00588@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> No, you'd go to sleep for a jiffy and check again... I belive a >> yield() syscall is in the pipeline or maybe already in. > Yield is in the kernel. Is yield() the same as sleep(0)? Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message