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Re: The relative timeout in linuxthreads

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:11:56PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:08:43PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> > 
> > > That is why I asked, how could a thread time out in 30 seconds?
> > 
> > clock_nanosleep().
> > 
> 
> I want to wait on a condition variable and time out in 30 seconds. How
> do I do that?

You spawn a new thread that clock_nanosleep()s 30 seconds and then signals
the condition.

Thanks,
Marcus

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