On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:14:30PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote: > If it isn't guaranteed to do something but is rather just a "hint", that's > fine, as long as it's documented. But we should still make an attempt to > honor the hint if the underlying system will let us. > > [For example, I know my research work frequently requires these hints > because ~10ms is farrrrr too long a timeslice in my field, and I love > using APR for my research projects... I personally just assumed > apr_thread_yield() did what I wanted until I looked into it and found that > it did nothing.]
[moving this discussion to APR] FWIW, here's the top of the thread that introduced this API: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3e You bring up a good point, so my only question is whether we know how to implement this on all the unix thread libraries out there. -aaron
