1.\" $OpenBSD: pthread_yield.3,v 1.3 2004/01/25 14:48:32 jmc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" PUBLIC DOMAIN: No Rights Reserved. Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org> 4.\" 5.Dd September 18, 2006 6.Dt PTHREAD_YIELD 3 7.Os 8.Sh NAME 9.Nm pthread_yield 10.Nd yield control of the current thread 11.Sh LIBRARY 12.Lb libpthread 13.Sh SYNOPSIS 14.In pthread.h 15.Ft void 16.Fn pthread_yield void 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18The 19.Fn pthread_yield 20forces the running thread to relinquish the processor until it again 21becomes the head of its thread list. 22.Sh SEE ALSO 23.Xr sched_yield 2 24.Sh STANDARDS 25The 26.Fn pthread_yield 27is a non-portable (but quite common) extension to 28.St -p1003.1-2001 . 29