Re: possibly ot: thread suspension

"Szabolcs Ferenczi" <szabolcs.ferenczi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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 May 12, 9:15 am, Chris Forone <4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> how does a thread suspend itself? is a volatile bool enough, that is
> checked after each loop?

[...]

> If you want to check the return values of the library operations

You must check the return values of pthread calls. IMVHO, applications
that 
fail to at least check status of pthread calls are crap.


> your code will be even more complex.

Why? You can wrap the raw API calls.