[ECOS] question about POSIX thread

[Jay Foster]

Is it OK to start a Posix thread (using pthread_create()) from
cyg_user_start()?  This seems to work OK, but what are the kinds of things
that might go wrong if this is not OK?

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Larmour [mailto:jifl@eCosCentric.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:13 PM
To: ZI ZHOU
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] question about POSIX thread


ZI ZHOU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to find out my current thread using
> pthread_self(), can I call it directly in
> cyg_start()?in other words, is cyg_start() considered
> a main thread?

No.

> Or should I create a thread in
> cyg_start() and call pthread_self() within this
> thread? How about cyg_thread_self()?

Only create eCos threads from cyg_start(). Create POSIX threads from 
main() (and use pthread_create).

Jifl

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