Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:09:26 -0600 | From | Timur Tabi <> |
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** Reply to message from Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de> on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:06:08 +0100
> > What is wrong with sleep_on()? > > If you have a task that looks like: > > loop: > <do something important> > sleep_on(q) > > And you do wakeup(q) hoping to get something important done, then if the > task isn't sleeping at the time of the wakeup it will ignore the wakeup > and go to sleep, which imay not be what you wanted.
Ok, so how should this code have been written?
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