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.\" $FreeBSD$ 6.\" 7.Dd September 18, 2006 8.Dt PTHREAD_YIELD 3 9.Os 10.Sh NAME 11.Nm pthread_yield 12.Nd yield control of the current thread 13.Sh LIBRARY 14.Lb libpthread 15.Lb libthr 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.In pthread.h 18.Ft void 19.Fn pthread_yield void 20.Sh DESCRIPTION 21The 22.Fn pthread_yield 23forces the running thread to relinquish the processor until it again 24becomes the head of its thread list. 25.Sh SEE ALSO 26.Xr sched_yield 2 27.Sh STANDARDS 28The 29.Fn pthread_yield 30is a non-portable (but quite common) extension to 31.St -p1003.1-2001 . 32