Anticipating a Reply (ruxyz@yahoo.com) wrote: > 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. Have a look to ldd ( http://linux-study.cs.ccu.edu.tw/ldd2nd/ ) If you want to have it interruptible and timeout: interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(wait_queue_head_t *queue, long timeout); -- Cordialement/Regards +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Christophe Lucas -- IOMEDA SA (clucas@iomeda.fr) | | Developpeur/Administrateur GNU/Linux | +-------------------------------------------------------+ | http://titux.tuxfamily.org -- Registered User #271267 | +-------------------------------------------------------+ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
