Re: A better interface, perhaps: a timed signal flag

[Robert Hancock]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> There's also something else that would be a nice addition to the kernel
> API.  A sleep and wakeup that is implemented without signals. Similar to
> what the kernel does with wake_up.  That way you can sleep till another
> process/thread is done with what it was doing and wake up the other task
> when done, without the use of signals.  Or is there something that
> already does this?

For between threads, this is what the POSIX pthread API is for 
(pthread_cond_wait and friends) which is implemented using futexes these 
days..

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