Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you expand on that? In particular, I would be grateful if you could > clarify "cancellation". Cancellation in pthreads is requesting the > termination of a thread, where I neither see how that is important in the > Hurd, nor what is missing for that in the current implementation.
We use it to interrupt RPCs. The Hurd's "thread_cancel" orders all future RPCs made by the thread to stop in a controlled way--most importantly, the RPC that is in progress at roughly the same time as the cancel is made. > So I guess you are referring to the interruptable RPCs. Either we keep the > current implementation, but put it on top of pthreads rather than cthreads, > or we change the Hurd to use the pthread infrastructure for that (I guess > that means using pthread_cleanup_* in the relevant places and using the > terminating pthread_cancel, rather than using the hurd_condition_wait > semantics, where a non-zero return value indicates cancellation). Right. Switching to pthreads beans doing just that. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
