[fpc-pascal] Threading in FPC DOS

Vinzent Hoefler JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net
Wed Jul 12 13:00:44 CEST 2006


On Wednesday 12 July 2006 09:58, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > On 12 jul 2006, at 11:25, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >
> > sleep(0) is quite bad, because it may not necessarily give up any
> > timeslice. At least very short nanosleeps seem to be implemented as
> > spinning loops on Mac OS X, so maybe sleep(0) is the same.
>
> Do you know a correct way of doing this on *nix?

"sched_yield()"? Seems to be POSIX, so I suppose it's available on most 
Unices.


Vinzent.




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