SYNOPSIS

wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq, condition, timeout);

ARGUMENTS

wq

the waitqueue to wait on

condition

a C expression for the event to wait for

timeout

timeout, in jiffies

DESCRIPTION

The process is put to sleep (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) until the condition evaluates to true or a signal is received. The condition is checked each time the waitqueue wq is woken up.

wake_up has to be called after changing any variable that could change the result of the wait condition.

RETURNS

0 if the timeout elapsed, -ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by a signal, or the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the condition evaluated to true before the timeout elapsed.

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