Re: (ITS#3950) sched_yield() considered harmful

[hyc@symas.com]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not sure why we ever used 
> sched_yield() in the first place, it was known to cause headaches on 
> the Solaris build as well. We should probably leave it as a last 
> resort, and prefer pthread_yield() instead.
>
I take this back. pthread_yield was deleted from the POSIX pthread 
specification. sched_yield is the correct call to be used by all 
POSIX-compliant apps.

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