RE: [ECOS] Task suspension and resumption in POSIX

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 11:18 -0500, Ali, Khurram wrote:
> Thank you for the quick reply.
> 
> I actually just want to do a self-suspend. And another task resumes the
> suspended task.

Why not use the synchronization primitives, e.g. semaphores, that
were designed for just this sort of operation?

> 
> I added the following functions in thread.cxx. It suspends. Just does
> not resume!
> 
> //----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> // Suspend thread.
> externC int pthread_suspend ( void )
> {
>     PTHREAD_ENTRY();
>  
> 
>     pthread_info *info = pthread_self_info();
>  
> 
>     // suspend the thread.
>     info->thread->suspend();
>  
> 
>     return ( 0 );
> }
>  
> 
> //----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> // Resume thread.
> externC int pthread_resume ( pthread_t thread1 )
> {
>     PTHREAD_ENTRY();
>  
> 
>     pthread_info *info = pthread_info_id( thread1 );
>  
> 
>     //resume thread.
>     if(info != NULL)
>     {
>         info->thread->resume();
>  
> 
>         return ( 0 );
>     }
>     else
>         return ( -1 );
> }
> 
> Thank you,
> Khurram
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nickg@xl5.calivar.com [mailto:nickg@xl5.calivar.com] On Behalf Of
> Nick Garnett
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:09 AM
> To: Ali, Khurram
> Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Task suspension and resumption in POSIX
> 
> "Ali, Khurram" <Khurram_Ali@mentorg.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have two questions:
> > 
> > 1) I am trying to suspend resume posix threads. I do not see the
> signals
> > for suspending and resuming threads in POSIX. Any ideas on how I can
> > suspend the threads?
> 
> These are not implemented, they are part of the job control mechanism
> which is not supported in eCos.
> 
> If you need to to stop and start threads you should really be doing it
> using explicit synchronization mechanisms. Stopping and starting
> threads without their cooperation is usually a bad idea, since you
> don't know what state they are in and it can lead to deadlock.
> 
> > 
> > 2) I am using insight to debug my applications. I can debug anything
> in
> > the main thread. But as soon as I put a break point in a thread that I
> > create from main, insight hangs. Any ideas on how to do this?
> 
> I cannot really help here except to suggest trying it from a
> commandline-only GDB, which may give you more information about what
> is happening.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nick Garnett                                     eCos Kernel Architect
> http://www.ecoscentric.com                The eCos and RedBoot experts
> 

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