Re: VSTa, tsync, user level semaphores

Hi,

Gary Shea wrote:
>
> Any comments on this part? Will there be a yield() system call?
> I think maybe Dave Hudson mentioned that one...

Yes, any thread will be able to call sched_yield() - the scheduler gets to
decide who has the next go though (in case something more urgent comes
along).

> The referred-to function, msleep(), is apparently available on
> AIX -- I don't know that VSTa has it, and I don't know anything
> about what it does on AIX. I suspect that what I'm calling yield()
> above (I can't remember what Dave called it) is the same thing as
> msleep().

We have __msleep() (I think it has the 2 underscores :-)) We even have
__usleep(). They both use the same underlying mechanism.

                        Regards,
                        Dave
Received on Thu Dec 15 08:37:20 1994