Re: Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to suspend execution?

[Bart Van Assche]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Eric Smith <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there any method for one thread to force another thread to suspend
> execution, then later let it resume, that is lighter weight than using
> signals?  I don't need it to be portable to anything other than Linux.
> The suspend needs to be synchronous, but resume doesn't.

Trying to suspend another thread synchronously is a bad idea because
this can easily trigger deadlocks. E.g. if you suspend a thread while
that thread holds a lock on a mutex, your application will deadlock.

Bart.
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