[boost] Re: Porting to SCO Unix

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-02 08:47:33

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> John Maddock wrote:
>>> ** checking pthread_yield... no
>>> This is correct, but I do have a pthread_yield_np() function, maybe
>>> we should look for it, too.
>>
>> It's up to the thread lib guys to use it (or not), maybe you could
>> hassle the authors of the thread lib you are using to provide a
>> standard
>> function signature?
>
> There is no pthread_yield in POSIX. Yields are evil anyway. ;-) 

Why evil?

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