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From: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov (Rich Rinehart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: How can you drop your time slice
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Date: 13 Jul 90 21:25:13 GMT
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I am doing some research in parallel processing monitors and
am looking for a way to force the scheduler to drop a process
when it is spinning on a lock (a nice from within Fortran).

I've considered just doing some io but there has to be a better
way.  I am not sure even io will do it as it may be writting
to memory buffers anyways.

I am running under bsd 4.3 unix.

thanks for any ideas
-rich
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