Hi , Refer "Linux Device Drivers" for information about sleep_on_timeout(),pg 142,........ Hope this helps . Regards ! --- R Gowri <rgowri@neomagic.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to wait for an event and timeout after a > specific time period > specified. > > And it should also wait upon an event, on whose > occurence it will > conrtinue with the initial processing. > > While waiting it should not use CPU cycles. > > I want to know how to implement this. > > just to be more clear, > > say... sleep(5), when this is sleeping if in the 3rd > second the event > arrives it should go to its signal handler or > whatever and continue with > the initial processing before it started sleeping. > > sleep can't be interrupted. > > so how should I implement it? > > Thanks. > Gowri. > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > ________________________________________________________________________ Send free SMS using the Yahoo! Messenger. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/pc/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
