-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org]On Behalf Of Ulrich Eckhardt snip>

On a related note, why doesn't the threading lib offer any means to yield for a certain time? In more than nine out of ten cases, this is the way I do things, waiting for a certain point in time - like Boost.Thread does - is rather the exception than the rule. I'd like to second that request, needing to use the win32 Sleep just kills the portability. My workaround for yielding is -

#if defined _MSC_VER || WIN32 # include <windows.h> // for Sleep # define MILLI_SECOND_SLEEP(value) (Sleep(value)) #else # include <unistd.h> // for usleep # define MILLI_SECOND_SLEEP(value) (usleep(value * 1000)) #endif but that's just a hack, it really should be in the library. Matt Scanned by McAfee GroupShield {X3BTB534}