Method pause

src/core/componentManager.cpp:1297–1314

pause tick loop: how=1 : notify components, halt loop in a sleep how=2 : notify components, wait for nRun = 0 (force NOT EOI!), then put loop to sleep timeout : if how=2, then max number of ticks of nRun>0 , after which pause request is discarded and EOI is assumed again when nRun=0 (irrelevant when how=1) */

timeout :  if how=2, then max number of ticks of nRun>0 , after which pause request is discarded and EOI is assumed again when nRun=0  (irrelevant when how=1)
*/
void cComponentManager::pause(int how, int timeout)
{
  // WARNING: pause/resume is currently only implemented for single thread processing!
  smileMutexLock(pauseMtx);
  if (tickLoopPaused && how > 0) {
    smileMutexUnlock(pauseMtx);  
    return; 
  }
  int oldTickLoopPaused = tickLoopPaused;
  tickLoopPaused = how;
  tickLoopPauseTimeout = timeout;
  pauseStartNr = -1;
  if (how == 0 && oldTickLoopPaused) {
    //smileCondBroadcast(pauseCond);  // for multi-threaded tick loops ?
    smileCondSignal(pauseCond);
  }
  smileMutexUnlock(pauseMtx);
}

// If the tickLoopPaused flag is set, notifies all components of the imminent pause,
// blocks until the tick loop is resumed, and notifies components of the resume.