The relative timeout in linuxthreads

Wed Feb 6 16:17:00 GMT 2002

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:11:56PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:08:43PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> > 
> > > That is why I asked, how could a thread time out in 30 seconds?
> > 
> > clock_nanosleep().
> > 
> 
> I want to wait on a condition variable and time out in 30 seconds. How
> do I do that?

You spawn a new thread that clock_nanosleep()s 30 seconds and then signals
the condition.

Thanks,
Marcus

-- 
`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org brinkmd@debian.org
Marcus Brinkmann              GNU    http://www.gnu.org    marcus@gnu.org
Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de