Re: timeout in task struct...

B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:41:11 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Raj, Ashok wrote:

> Hi
>
> For short delays in threads, earlier one was able to use
>
> current->timeout = x;
> current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
> schedule();
> current->timeout = 0;
>
> in 2.2.5 kernel looks like this field has disappeared. should we have to

The new method for this is:

current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
schedule_timeout(timeout);

See schedule_timeout in kernel/sched.c

-bp

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