Re: [Xenomai-core] How to cancel a Xenomai POSIX thread

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
 > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
 > > On Dec 10, 2007 4:20 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid> wrote:
 > >> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
 > >>> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
 > >>   # ./kill_pthread
 > >>   Starting high_prio_task
 > >>   low_prio_task: policy=1 prio=10
 > >>   Killed low_prio task: count=172709970, overruns=0
 > >>
 > >>   [1]+  Stopped                 ./kill_pthread
 > > 
 > > What you are observing is probably a difference between linuxthreads
 > > and NPTL: with linuxthreads, SIGSTOP can be sent to a particular
 > > thread and will cause this thread only to stop. With NPTL, it seems
 > > that the effect of SIGSTOP is global, it affects the entire process. I
 > > will test tonight on my x86 box to see if I observe the same effect.
 > 
 > Ah, the man page says:
 > 
 >  Note  that  pthread_kill()  only causes the signal to be handled in the
 >  context of the given thread; the signal action  (termination  or  stop-
 >  ping) affects the process as a whole.

I can confirm the same effect on plain Linux. So, the newly added
pthread_kill is not to blame (yet).

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					    Gilles Chanteperdrix.