how to sleep a thread for specified milliseconds and/or nanoseconds

[Victor Whiskey Yankee]

Hello,
I'm using boost 1.35.

Would someone please give example of best way to sleep for a specified
duration of milliseconds or nanoseconds?

It seems that xtime is being deprecated in the thread library, but the
sleep function still wants an xtime?

Thanks,
Victor

[Kevin Heifner]

Post by Victor Whiskey Yankee
I'm using boost 1.35.
Would someone please give example of best way to sleep for a specified
duration of milliseconds or nanoseconds?

boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::milliseconds(10));
boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::nanoseconds(10));

Post by Victor Whiskey Yankee
It seems that xtime is being deprecated in the thread library, but the
sleep function still wants an xtime?

Yes, xtime is deprecated.

KevinH

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[Scott McMurray]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Victor Whiskey Yankee

Great.Thank you!
Now, how can I sleep if I am not inside a boost::thread? When I try that, I
error: 'boost::this_thread' has not been declared

You can't not be in a thread. And that error usually means a missing include.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#thread.thread_management.this_thread.sleep

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[Igor R.]

You mean there is not a sleep function anywhere in boost but inside boost::thread? Wow...that's incredible disappointment.

sleep() resides in this_thread namespace
just include the appropriate header file
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[Anthony Williams]

Post by Scott McMurray

Now, how can I sleep if I am not inside a boost::thread? When I try that, I
error: 'boost::this_thread' has not been declared

You can't not be in a thread. And that error usually means a missing include.

You mean there is not a sleep function anywhere in boost but inside
boost::thread? Wow...that's incredible disappointment.<br>
Maybe with signals or condition variable by chance?<br>
How does one sleep in main that allows milliseconds and is
cross-platform with linux and windows xp?

boost::this_thread::sleep works in all threads, including those not started
with boost::thread, such as main.

However, you need to include the right header:

#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>

Anthony

[Anthony Williams]

Post by Victor Whiskey Yankee
Would someone please give example of best way to sleep for a specified
duration of milliseconds or nanoseconds?

boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::milliseconds(3));

Anthony