From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v2] fzsync: revoke thread_B when parent hit accidental break
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:01:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190109120129.GA19502@rei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874laim6ot.fsf@rpws.prws.suse.cz>
Hi!
> Actually I think the correct way to kill a thread is with
> pthread_cancel.
>
> AFAICT we could call:
>
> pthread_setcanceltype(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS)
> pthread_setcancelstate(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE)
>
> at the start of thread B, then call:
>
> pthread_cancel(<thread_b_pid>)
>
> in thread A if we can't rely on setting the exit flag to work
>
> There are other ways to use pthread_cancel, but this looks like the
> simplest for our use case.
That may work, at least this avoids the need to have a signal handler in
the first place.
But I would still like to push the simpler solution before the release,
i.e. checking for recvmmsg support in the test setup.
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-09 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-08 13:26 [LTP] [PATCH v2] fzsync: revoke thread_B when parent hit accidental break Li Wang
2019-01-08 13:48 ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-01-09 5:18 ` Li Wang
2019-01-09 11:06 ` Richard Palethorpe
2019-01-09 12:01 ` Cyril Hrubis [this message]
2019-01-09 13:32 ` [LTP] [PATCH] Check recvmmsg exists before entering fuzzy loop Richard Palethorpe
2019-01-10 3:39 ` Li Wang
2019-01-10 9:50 ` Richard Palethorpe
2019-01-10 9:59 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2] " Richard Palethorpe
2019-01-11 5:57 ` Li Wang
2019-01-11 11:58 ` Cyril Hrubis
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