On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 12:50:57AM -0500, D Cleveland wrote: > This may be the simplest question posted on here, but....I want to > basically do this > > int p=0; > while(!p); > > so have the code do nothing until the variable p is equal to 1. Is a > while loop the best or is there a nicer method? If it is in the kernel, a semaphore would be much nicer because it doesn't hog the CPU. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
