cv_timedwait()()

Another solution drivers used to avoid blocking on events that would not occur was to set a timeout before the call to sleep. This timeout would occur far enough in the future that the event should have happened, and if it did run, it would awaken the blocked process. The driver would then see if the timeout function had run, and return some sort of error.

This can still be done in the SunOS 5.7 system, but the same thing may be accomplished with cv_timedwait(9F). An absolute time to wait is passed to cv_timedwait(9F), which will return zero if the time is reached and the event has not occurred. See Example 4-3 for an example usage of cv_timedwait(9F). Also see "cv_wait_sig()" for information on cv_timedwait_sig(9F).