I have some code to start a task that suddenly started failing. This is pretty mature code. Here is the code fragment with my added printf()

        pthread_attr_t att;
        int stat = pthread_attr_init(&att);
        if (stat != 0) {
            printf("pthread_attr_init: (%d)(%d): %s\n",stat,errno,strerror(stat));
            // return
        }

Here is the output:

pthread_attr_init: (16)(0): Device or resource busy

If I don't return in the if statement, the subsequent pthread_create() seems to work just fine.

Tim Canham
JPL Flight Software