Re: [AD] WIP 4.1.15 and CVS freeze

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:07 +0200, Angelo Mottola wrote:
> >> And I'm not sure if e.g. sched_yield is available for OSX.
> >
> > I believe it is, because I think I remember working with Angello on a 
> > problem he was having with APEG, and had him replace a yield_timeslice 
> > call (which was resting) with sched_yield. Also, it ooks like it's 
> > been a part of ISO/IEC since 96, and IEEE Std since 93 (POSIX.1b). 
> > Doesn't the OSX port do a configure check for it like the other Unix 
> > ports (since it is Unix)?
> 
> Hello, sorry for my absence from AD these 4.1.15 WIP release days... 
> Just came back to a vacation to Berlin, and I loved the city. Last time 
> I had been there was 8 years ago and it has changed a LOT; now the 
> difference between eastern and western half is thin.
> 

I was also there about 8 years ago :)

> Yes, sched_yield() is available under OSX. And no, the OSX port does 
> not use configure; the configuration is static, as OSX is a fixed unix 
> variant, no need to check for things as what's on a machine running OSX 
> will be on another running the same os.
> 

Ok, so we can just put sched_yield without checking.

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Elias Pschernig