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Use of wait_data structure elements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry V. Streepy, Jr.)
Wed Oct 2 20:05:24 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 17:49:43 -0600
From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthcare.com>
To: pthreads mailing list <pthreads@MIT.EDU>
In the structure:
union pthread_wait_data {
pthread_mutex_t * mutex;
pthread_cond_t * cond;
const sigset_t * sigwait; /* Waiting on a signal in sigwait */
struct {
short fd; /* Used when thread waiting on fd */
short branch; /* line number, for debugging */
} fd;
struct pthread_select_data * select_data;
};
The fields mutex and cond are never used anywhere in the pthreads code.
I could really use both of these in implementing pthread_cancel (which
needs to be able to reaquire a mutex if a cond_wait is cancelled).
Anyone know a reason not to use them?
--
Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
Chief Technical Officer, Healthcare Communications, Inc.
mailto:streepy@healthcare.com
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