.\" $OpenBSD: __thrsleep.2,v 1.3 2013/04/06 07:32:40 tedu Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2012 Philip Guenther .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR .\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES .\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: April 6 2013 $ .Dt __THRSLEEP 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm __thrsleep , .Nm __thrwakeup .Nd userspace thread sleep and wakeup .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/time.h .Ft int .Fn __thrsleep "const volatile void *id" "clockid_t clock_id" "const struct timespec *abstime" "void *lock" "const int *abort" .Ft int .Fn __thrwakeup "const volatile void *id" "int count" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn __thrsleep and .Fn __thrwakeup functions provide thread sleep and wakeup primitives with which synchronization primitives such as mutexes and condition variables can be implemented. .Fn __thrsleep blocks the calling thread on the abstract .Dq wait channel identified by the .Fa id argument until another thread calls .Fn __thrwakeup with the same .Fa id value. If the .Fa abstime argument is not .Dv NULL , then it specifies an absolute time, measured against the .Fa clock_id clock, after which .Fn __thrsleep should time out and return. If the specified time is in the past then .Fn __thrsleep will return immediately without blocking. .Pp The .Fa lock argument, if not .Dv NULL , points to a locked spinlock that will be unlocked by .Fn __thrsleep atomically with respect to calls to .Fn __thrwakeup , such that if another thread locks the spinlock before calling .Fn __thrwakeup with the same .Fa id , then the thread that called .Fn __thrsleep will be eligible for being woken up and unblocked. .Pp The .Fa abort argument, if not .Dv NULL , points to an .Vt int that will be examined after unlocking the spinlock pointed to by .Fa lock and immediately before blocking. If that .Vt int is non-zero then .Fn __thrsleep will immediately return .Er EINTR without blocking. This provides a mechanism for a signal handler to keep a call to .Fn __thrsleep from blocking, even if the signal is delivered immediately before the call. .Pp The .Fn __thrwakeup function unblocks one or more threads that are sleeping on the wait channel identified by .Fa id . The number of threads unblocked is specified by the .Fa count argument, except that if zero is specified then all threads sleeping on that .Fa id are unblocked. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Fn __thrsleep will return zero if woken by a matching call to .Fn __thrwakeup , otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error. .Pp .Fn __thrwakeup will return zero if at least one matching call to .Fn __thrsleep was unblocked, otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS .Fn __thrsleep and .Fn __thrwakeup will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa ident argument is .Dv NULL . .El .Pp In addition, .Fn __thrsleep may return one of the following errors: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EWOULDBLOCK The time specified by the .Fa abstime and .Fa clock_id arguments was reached. .It Bq Er EINTR A signal arrived or the .Fa abort argument pointed to a non-zero value. .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa clock_id argument is neither .Dv CLOCK_REALTIME nor .Dv CLOCK_MONOTONIC . .El .Pp .Fn __thrwakeup may return the following error: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er ESRCH No threads calling .Fn __thrsleep with the same .Fa id were found. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pthread_cond_wait 3 , .Xr pthread_mutex_lock 3 , .Xr tsleep 9 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn __thrsleep and .Fn __thrwakeup functions are specific to .Ox and should not be used in portable applications. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn thrsleep and .Fn thrwakeup syscalls appeared in .Ox 3.9 . The .Fa clock_id and .Fa abstime arguments were added in .Ox 4.9 . The functions were renamed to .Fn __thrsleep and .Fn __thrwakeup and the .Fa abort argument was added in .Ox 5.1 .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Fn thrsleep and .Fn thrwakeup syscalls were created by .An Ted Unangst Aq tedu@OpenBSD.org . This manual page was written by .An Philip Guenther Aq guenther@OpenBSD.org .