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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Big Qthread vs. pthread and usleep problem (UPDATE)
From:       Andrew Sutton <ansutton () sep ! com>
Date:       2001-11-30 4:17:43
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On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:42 pm, Danny Shumock wrote:
> I'm not sure of the particulars of your application but I can provide some
> information about usleep, etc.  usleep puts the entire process to sleep so
> every thread in your application will sleep for the specified interval.

that's not true at all - not in linux anyway. because linux implements 
threads as processes, sleeping a thread will _only_ sleep that particular 
thread.

andrew sutton
ansutton@sep.com
 
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