Re: [Boost-users] How to use boost::thread::sleep(...)?

From: Jean-Sebastien Stoezel (js.stoezel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-05 17:17:14

Great thanks!

On 5-Jul-08, at 3:20 PM, Anthony Williams wrote:

> Jean-Sebastien Stoezel <js.stoezel_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> I would like to relinquish the CPU from a thread so I thought using
>> boost::thread::sleep(...). However, I have no idea how to initialize
>> its argument. It looks like this is a boost::system_time. How to
>> initiliaze such a type so my thread waits 20ms, 100ms...!?
>
> You can use
>
> boost::thread::sleep(boost::get_system_time() 
> +boost::posix_time::milliseconds(20));
>
> or use the new this_thread namespace version of sleep:
>
> boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::milliseconds(20));
>
> Anthony
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