Re: Possible spin-problem in nanosleep()

Richard B. Johnson wrote:

Is this a known problem? Is it going to be fixed? In a possibly
related note, the following:

main()
{
    for(;;)
        sched_yield();
}

.... is shown to be spinning, by 'top' not sleeping. This, even though
it is giving up its quantum continuously.

If no other processes are runnable, this will still use 100% of the CPU.

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