[ECOS] How to "atomize" the end of a thread...

[Jonathan Larmour]

Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robin Farine [ mailto:acnrf@dial.eunet.ch ]
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] How to "atomize" the end of a thread...
> >
> >
> > You could reclaim thread1's resources from another thread
> > after making sure that
> > thread1 has entered the EXITED state, so you don't need the
> > atomic termination
> > of thread1.
> 
> Yes, but that means I need either a thread doing only that... that doesn't
> fit well in my stuf...
> 
> No in fact I think I need an ASR... (This wasn't here a year ago, just seen
> that....) or the priority=0 trick.
> 
> But i can't find any doc on the ASRs, Just that they are run from the
> scheduler

They're not very flexible at this stage, and so aren't intended for general
application use yet. But they're designed to solve a different problem:
running code in the context of a thread "before" that thread is
rescheduled. They don't prevent pre-emption.

Jifl
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