On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:12:14AM -0800, Eric Peterson wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:00:17PM +0000, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Stuart,
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> > Agreed, a condition variable is the "portable" way to do this, and
> > it looks like RT-Linux 3.0 has them. I'm a bit suspicious though:
> > if they _are_ supported, why should the manual still advocate the
> > use of the pthread_{suspend/wakeup}_np() calls (instead of marking
> > them as "compatibility" functions like the old rt_task_suspend(),
> > etc.?)
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> Because they work and they are simple. Personally, I find the condvars
> to be ugly, but they are supported in RTLinux and are
> portable and some people even like 'em.
I'm curious, why do you think conditional variables are ugly? (I'm not
implying they are or aren't, I just want to see your reasoning)
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