Re: [PATCH] Disable thread cancellation support for RTEMS

[Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>]

On 03/22/2013 04:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 22 15:47, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > Use a define to manage the stdio thread cancellation support.  Disable
> > the thread cancellation support for RTEMS.  In RTEMS the availability of
> > POSIX threads is optional and depends on a configuration option.  To
> > support all RTEMS configurations we have to drop the thread cancellation
> > support.  A long term solution has to be developed in RTEMS to deal with
> > this.  Once this is done, we can enable the support in Newlib again.
>
> Wouldn't it be much cleaner code-wise to override the pthread_setcancelstate
> function with an RTEMS-specific dummy if cancellation is not supported?

This could be an option.  Makes the usage of pthread_setcancelstate sense if no 
locks are used?

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