Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:41:02 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Bywalec Tomasz <bywale-t AT zszosw DOT petex DOT com DOT pl>
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Subject:	Re: Newbie's question about __dpmi_yield and Linux...
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Bywalec Tomasz wrote:

>   Well, I know that it's DJGPP-related mailing list, and so it's main
> purpose is tu discuss about DOS programming related topics, but I need
> help with programming under Linux. Is there a function in Linux's libc
> which "tells" kernel, that current process doesn't need more of it's
> time slice and switches execution to next process (just like
> __dpmi_yield() does in DJGPP) ?

Try `sleep' or `nanosleep'.  The only difference is that you will have to 
decide how much time to sleep, but that's not a difficult decision, 
especially if you happen to know the frequency at which the OS scheduler 
runs.

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