Re: HPUX sleep effect on CPU time slize and thread priority

On Nov 17, 5:28 am, Rick Jones <rick.jon...@xxxxxx> wrote:
xbokZ...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have several client application that do same processing. The
application is spawn by another application called server. One of
them is recently patched tosleepjust between being fork and spawn.
So the way it is done is in server application, fork to client
threadand serverthread.

A wording nit - fork() creats a child _process_ not athread- calling
it athreadimplies (at least to some) something like POSIX threads.

----------------------------
//server code
pid_t pId = fork();
//Lots of code
if (pId == 0)
{
//The way I understood it, this is the clientthread
usleep(500000L); //Sleep500 milisecond

Out of curiousity, why thesleep?

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OK my bad! I really thought client process equal to a new thread.

The sleep function is to delay it a few hundred millisecond so that
some code in the else (parent process) part is executed first. I guess
that hold true if child process is something like a thread.

I got a feeling that I'm not understanding how fork work by assuming
that it create another thread. Please advise me on this.

I'm still curios on the answer to first post question.

Best regards!

.

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