[ECOS] How to retrieve the thread control block information

Nick Garnett nickg@ecoscentric.com
Fri Jul 2 08:01:00 GMT 2004


Yubin Gong <ygong688@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi, I would like to know if there is a simple way to
> retrieve the task control block information that is
> provided when a thread is created, including
> sched_info, name, stack_base, etc. as shown in the
> following prototype:
> 
> void cyg_thread_create(cyg_addrword_t sched_info,
> cyg_thread_entry_t* entry, cyg_addrword_t entry_data,
> char* name, void* stack_base, cyg_ucount32 stack_size,
> cyg_handle_t* handle, cyg_thread* thread);
> 
> 
> I can use the function cyg_thread_self() to get the
> handle, but I don't know how to use the handle to get
> a pointer to the control block.
> 

As always, a brief look at the documentation will answer your
question. Take a look at cyg_thread_get_info():

http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/ref/kernel-thread-info.html

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Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
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