On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:52:16PM -0500, Stephen D. Cohen wrote:
> Eric,
>
> > Thanks for the info - I guess I was looking for an answer as to
> > whether this is "correct" to do. As Heinz mentioned, calling
> > pthread_wakeup_np() _does_ work, however, I've been occasionally
> > bitten by coding to the internal implementation (as opposed to
> > coding to the external interface.)
> >
> > I guess I'll go ahead and do it, with a big comment in my code :-)
>
> I would not bother with the big comment. Since the manual page does
> not indicate that the thread must be sleeping before it wakes it up, your
> usage is absolutely kosher. As a side note, I really do not see any reason
> why this will not work in the future. Perhaps Michael or Victor can throw
> in their two cents.
Waking up a process that is not sleeping has no effect and that seems like a sensible
behavior.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
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