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Can anybody explain me what is the meaning of CPU yield ? i tried to search on net , but did nt find any useful informatin . as fasr as ...
  1. 02-25-2008 #1
    davidcreston
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    CPU yield

    Can anybody explain me what is the meaning of CPU yield ?
    i tried to search on net , but did nt find any useful informatin .
    as fasr as i know , it belongs to each process in linux which tells that how much time , this process needs from CPU ?
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    Here ya go...........
    yield.c: when a thread doesn't need to keep the CPU
    You can see the source here.....
    http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/Classes/6220/Notes/yield.c

    It is to do with threaded programming.
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