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From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk>
To: Juancho Andrés Sáez <juancho@urano.sidsa.es>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] About POSIX signals
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A1B47A9.76D9044B@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027201c053d7$70581a30$be5635c3@sidsa.es>

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Juancho Andrés Sáez wrote:
> 
> I'm in trouble with POSIX signals.
> ¿Are POSIX signals delivered in the ASR POSIX routine?
> I mean, I try to send a signal from one thread to another,
> but 'cyg_posix_signal_asr' function is called from
> the signal origin thread after calling 'kill(other thread,SIGNAL)',
> but this call is not done from any ASR routine.
> ¿How are POSIX signals delivered from one thread to another ?

You mean pthread_kill() surely? If you use kill() then that sends a signal
to the whole process (and in eCos there is only one process), not just one
thread. Therefore any thread can receive it (unless explicitly masked).

Jifl
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2000-11-21  8:25 Juancho Andrés Sáez
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