Re: [PATCH] pthread_yield

2011-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen 
On Feb 10 01:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
 On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:49:58PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
 pthread_yield(3) was part of the POSIX.1c drafts but never made it into
 the final standard.  Nevertheless, it is provided by Linux[1],
 FreeBSD[2], OpenBSD[3], AIX[4], and possibly other *NIXes.  
 
 On Linux, this function is implemented as a call to sched_yield(2).
 Patch attached.
 
 Please check in.

Two notes:

- We should use the API version bump to 236 for both new functions,
  __xpg_strerror_r as well as pthread_yield.

- Please add the new entry point to doc/new-features.sgml.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: [PATCH] pthread_yield

2011-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor 
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:49:58PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
pthread_yield(3) was part of the POSIX.1c drafts but never made it into
the final standard.  Nevertheless, it is provided by Linux[1],
FreeBSD[2], OpenBSD[3], AIX[4], and possibly other *NIXes.  

On Linux, this function is implemented as a call to sched_yield(2).
Patch attached.

Please check in.

Thanks.

cgf