On Monday 14 June 2004 15:07, l x wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > The reason I do this is that modB should do something > only after modA is ready (completes some tasks). So > to check if modA is ready, I put a flag (int my_flag) > in modA. modA sets my_flag to 1 after it completes > the tasks. modB checks my_flag by calling > func_of_modA()defined in modA every 1 second. > > If I can not put modB in sleep, what is the easiest > way to do this? Perhaps a semephore will do what you want. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/