Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:46:48 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c Message-ID: <200503071146.48394.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <42288FA6.7010102@freebsd.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0503031020180.2058-100000@sea.ntplx.net> <20050305032619.K18638@delplex.bde.org> <42288FA6.7010102@freebsd.org>
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On Friday 04 March 2005 11:41 am, Colin Percival wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > Sleeping on a stack address is just a bug [...] > > I was told that this was the canonical way to say "go to sleep and don't > wake up until the timo expires" was to tsleep() with ident equal to > something from the stack. > > If this isn't correct, what is the correct way to do this? I've seen > some code which does tsleep(NULL, ... ), but I was told that was also > wrong. I actually want to make a pause() function for just this purpose that uses sleepq_*() with a specific never_wake_me_up wait channel. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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