[ECOS] question about condition variables

[Nick Garnett]

Tom Coremans <tom.coremans@acunia.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to signal a specific thread to stop waiting on a
> condition variable while there are also other threads waiting on it?
> 

You can cause a thread to break out of any wait it is in with
cyg_thread_release(). In the case of condition variables, the thread
will reacquire the mutex before returning from cyg_cond_wait(). You
can detect that it was released by the return value of cyg_cond_wait()
being false.

-- 
Nick Garnett, eCos Kernel Architect
Red Hat, Cambridge, UK


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