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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Fork Post 5919 by rwb1959 on Sunday 26th of August 2001 08:14:42 PM
Old 08-26-2001
forking
Wee,

Yes you could use fork() BUT...
I would also recommend using threads to
accomplish what you are proposing. If you were
to use fork(), you would have as many separate
programs running as you have keywords per query.
Then, you would have to synchronize the results
of each into a single result. Threads will allow
you to run each keyword query against separate
databases but still allow you to synchronize
the results from within the same program. I
would recommend reading...

"Programming with POSIX Threads"
ISBN 0-201-63392-2

"Pthreads Programming"
ISBN 1-56592-115-1
 

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sched_yield

SCHED_YIELD(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						    SCHED_YIELD(2)

NAME

       sched_yield - yield the processor

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sched.h>

       int sched_yield(void);

DESCRIPTION

       sched_yield()  causes  the calling thread to relinquish the CPU.  The thread is moved to the end of the queue for its static priority and a
       new thread gets to run.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, sched_yield() returns 0.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

       In the Linux implementation, sched_yield() always succeeds.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES

       If the calling thread is the only thread in the highest priority list at that time, it will continue to run after a call to sched_yield().

       POSIX systems on which sched_yield() is available define _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING in <unistd.h>.

       Strategic calls to sched_yield() can improve performance by giving other threads or processes a chance  to  run	when  (heavily)  contended
       resources  (e.g.,  mutexes)  have  been	released  by the caller.  Avoid calling sched_yield() unnecessarily or inappropriately (e.g., when
       resources needed by other schedulable threads are still held by the caller), since doing so will result in  unnecessary	context  switches,
       which will degrade system performance.

SEE ALSO

       sched_setscheduler(2) for a description of Linux scheduling.

       Programming for the real world - POSIX.4 by Bill O. Gallmeister, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 1-56592-074-0

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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