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From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: Peter Graf <p.graf@itknet.de>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] sscanf() vs. fgetc()
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 04:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4D832C.370985AE@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010712104805.00914420@128.128.128.220>

Peter Graf wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after problems in a large context, I have cut things down to a short
> example for a phenomenon I can't explain myself.
> 
> I create and resume a new thread which uses fgetc() on a serial port, in an
> infinite loop.
> This new thread has a higher priority than the old one.
> If no characters are received, fgetc blocks and the old thread continues.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> But when I use sscanf() in the old thread, it hangs.

Hmm....

cyg_thread_create()...
cyg_thread_resume...
fgetc()...
fgetc() done.
fgetc()...
loop...
sprintf...
sscanf...
sscanf done.
loop...
main() finished

This was on a PC target FWIW.

Perhaps you should step into sscanf() and see where it stops. Or if it gets
stuck, press Ctrl-C and then "info threads", then switch to the main thread
and do a backtrace.

Jifl
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-12  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-11 14:09 [ECOS] Linux over RedBoot Venkat Mynampati
2001-07-11 14:36 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-07-11 14:53 ` Gary Thomas
2001-07-11 20:32   ` Fabrice Gautier
2001-07-11 23:37     ` Jesper Skov
2001-07-12  5:11       ` Gary Thomas
2001-07-12  5:30         ` Fabrice Gautier
2001-07-12  5:39           ` Gary Thomas
2001-07-12  5:45             ` Jesper Skov
2001-07-12  1:54 ` [ECOS] sscanf() vs. fgetc() Peter Graf
2001-07-12  3:23   ` Peter Graf
2001-07-12  3:28   ` Robin Farine
2001-07-12  3:42     ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-07-12  5:02       ` Robin Farine
2001-07-12  3:45     ` Peter Graf
2001-07-12  4:00   ` Jonathan Larmour [this message]
2001-07-12  5:57     ` Peter Graf
2001-07-12  6:13       ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-07-12  7:43         ` Peter Graf
2001-07-12 11:17           ` Robin Farine
2001-07-12 11:55             ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-07-13  2:33               ` Peter Graf
2001-07-13  2:33             ` Peter Graf

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