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to: Alan Clifford
from: David Muir
date: 1996-03-21 12:59:04
subject: Re: Threads

-=> Quoting Alan Clifford to All <=-

 AC> Hello All 

 AC> This is my first, tentative effort at an OS/2 program.  I thought I
 AC> would look at threads.  The program is at the end of the message. 
 AC> I was expecting thread 2 to print a few lines then swap to thread 3,
 AC> print a few lines and so on.  But it can get stuck in one of the
 AC> threads for about 19 seconds.  I also opened another window and ran

    The most obvious mistake I see is that you fail to allow either thread to 
sleep. Withot that sleep any thread is unable to release control to other 
threads. Insert a reasonable amount of sleep time into each thread to allow 
each to release control to the main process and other threads.

Dave...

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