Probelm regarding multithreaded program?

geethu · 08-09-2005, 06:11 AM

Hi,

How can one make a particular thread wait for some interval and later resume the thread without disturbing other threads in an multithreaded program?
Since i am using pthread functions, it will be helpful if i know the function from pthread APIs.
or
Is there any other way to acheive this?

Thanks,
Geethu

jtshaw · 08-09-2005, 07:34 AM

You can use the sleep/usleep function.

Check you man 3 sleep and man 3 usleep for more information.

btw... I'm moving this to programming since it is more of a programming type question.

geethu · 08-10-2005, 12:39 AM

Thanks for the reply.

I tried using sleep & usleep functions, didn't get the result i was expecting for because this functions were putting the thread which i wanted to suspend for some intervals including other threads too.Also processes were put into sleep.

Can you suggest any other function which can suspend only the thread i want without affecting other threads and processes in my application?