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Article #393Re: usleep and efficiency
From: Chris Lloyd
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 18:17
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 18:17
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In article <1992Jul31.175146.23460@svcdudes.com> moose@svcdudes.com writes: > However, there >is a wonderful example which uses mach ports timing out to implement a >non-signal dependant sleep. I forget where, but it's in >NeXTDevelopers/Examples. Timeout on mach message send/recv (as used by SortingInAction) seemed to be the way to do this, but I've started using: thread_switch(THREAD_NULL,SWITCH_OPTION_WAIT,timeout); Where timeout is in milliseconds. No ugly port allocate/deallocate and it does the trick. la la la, -- :: Christopher Lloyd :: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu :: Yrrid, Inc. :: :: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!! ::
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!titan.ucc.umass.edu!a74k110 From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd) Subject: Re: usleep and efficiency Message-ID: <1992Aug1.181734.2495@nic.umass.edu> Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: titan.ucc.umass.edu Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst References: <2A778A16.26787@noiro.acs.uci.edu> <1992Jul31.175146.23460@svcdudes.com> Distribution: na Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1992 18:17:34 GMT Lines: 18