Re: [Xenomai-help] pthread_mutex_lock returns 1

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

Landau, Bracha wrote:
>  Thanks.
> 
> The mutex failed in the function pse51_mutex_trylock_internal, in the following section (the printk is mine):
> 
> #if XENO_DEBUG(POSIX)
>         if (mutex->owningq != pse51_kqueues(mutex->attr.pshared))
>         {
>                 printk ("mutex->owningq\n");
>                 return EPERM;
>         }
> #endif /* XENO_DEBUG(POSIX) */
> 
> I have XENO_DEBUG defined.
> 
> What does this mean?

This means that the mutex you lock does not belong to the process which
tries to lock it.

A program which does:

pthread_mutex_t mutex;
pthread_mutex_init(&mutex, NULL);
pid = fork();
if (pid) {
	assert(pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex) == 0);
}

will fail for reasons I already explained (both in the two previous
answers I sent you, and in the howto I pointed you to, which also
explains how to solve this issue). I am aware that this is not the
behaviour of Linux, but changing in Xenomai is not easy.

> 
> (BTW, nothing I can do about those footers.)

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                                          Gilles