sem_wait as cancellation point

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Thu Jul 8 03:27:49 PDT 2004


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Petr Holub wrote:
> 
> > > sem_wait() is a cancellation point in libpthread.
> > 
> > No, it is not - at least according to my experience of 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9.
> > When I use following snipplet of code, it keeps hanging in the pthread_join:
> 
> You're using libc_r.  libpthread is in -current.

-bash-2.05b$ uname -a
FreeBSD sirius 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #17: Sat Jul  3 20:04:16 EDT 2004
root at sirius:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sirius  i386
-bash-2.05b$ ./sem_wait 
Creating thread.
Sleeping for 5 secs.
Initing semaphore.
Posting semaphore.
Waiting for semaphore (this should pass).
Waiting for semaphore (this should hang).
Trying to cancel the thread.
Trying to join the thread.
Finished.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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