On Thu, 29 May 2008 23:41:55 +0000 Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I find I need to be able to break out of the blocked state while waiting > to acquire a pthread_mutex. I'm using PI mutexes and want to continue > to do so. As I understand it, I can't use a signal to break out of the > lock as the man pages states: > > "If a signal is delivered to a thread waiting for a mutex, upon return > from the signal handler the thread shall resume waiting for the mutex > as if it was not interrupted." > > and that pthread_mutex_lock will not return EINTR. I had considered > using cond variables, but I don't think they will provide the same PI > behavior (since the threads are not blocked on the mutex while awaiting > the pthread_cond_signal - right?). > > I'm sure I'm not the first to want to do this, does anyone know of a > common best practice for accomplishing such a thing? > setjmp/longjmp? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
