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: src/share/man/man3/pthread_yield.3,v 1.2 2007/10/22 10:08:01 ru Exp $ 6.\" 7.Dd July 10, 2009 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.Sh SYNOPSIS 16.In pthread.h 17.Ft void 18.Fn pthread_yield void 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20The 21.Fn pthread_yield 22forces the running thread to relinquish the processor until it again 23becomes the head of its thread list. 24.Sh SEE ALSO 25.Xr sched_yield 2 26.Sh STANDARDS 27The 28.Fn pthread_yield 29is a non-portable (but quite common) extension to 30.St -p1003.1-2001 . 31