Re: Sleep-Slowdown

Ron Flory (ron.flory@adtran.com)
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:43:54 -0600

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Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Jan-Friso Evers wrote:
>
> > It surely does not make sense to call sleep(0), but in that case, it
> > would be nice to return emmediatly.
>
> It is silly to optimise sleep for speed! Also, there are programs out
> there that expect sleep(0) to behave like sched_yield().

yes, sleep(0) is probably the most common way to yield your process or
thread in most OS's (including RTOS's). This is normal and expected
behavior.

ron

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