[PATCH] Disable thread cancellation support for RTEMS

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 16:39:00 GMT 2013


On Mar 22 16:56, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> 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?

No, right.  I had another look into your patch and it looks ok.
Feel free to check in.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat



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