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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] pthread cancelation and scheduling magics
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To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>
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Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have written the attached test program to cancel Xenomai POSIX
> threads. The "calc_task" does some busy work, which the higher priority
> task "ctrl_task" interrupts and aborts after some time. The program does
> not behave like I expect and it also behaves differently on my PowerPC
> and ARM test system. The "calc_task" continues after calling
> pthread_cancel() in "ctrl_task". On ARM, the behaviour is even more
> wired. Is there anything wrong in my test program or anything else I
> should care of?

Hi Wolfgang,

before I delve into your program, did you read:
http://www.xenomai.org/documentation/trunk/html/api/group__posix__cancel.html
and
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/xsh_chap02_09.html#tag_02_09_05
?


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					    Gilles.