cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 04 March 2005 11:41 am, Colin Percival wrote:
> Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Sleeping on a stack address is just a bug [...]
>
> I was told that this was the canonical way to say "go to sleep and don't
> wake up until the timo expires" was to tsleep() with ident equal to
> something from the stack.
>
> If this isn't correct, what is the correct way to do this?  I've seen
> some code which does tsleep(NULL, ... ), but I was told that was also
> wrong.

I actually want to make a pause() function for just this purpose that uses 
sleepq_*() with a specific never_wake_me_up wait channel.

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