Hi all, I've just been wrestling with some code I've been writing, trying to
get pthreads condition variables to work under Cygwin on Windows 2000. I've
tried DLL versions 1.1.3 and the 20020409 snapshot, and neither are working
for me, so I'm assuming that no versions in between will work either...
When I build an run my test program (attached below) I get the following
results...
$ ./a.exe
-- test thread has signal()ed
-- test thread about to wait()...
-- main thread wakes!
-- main thread about to signal()
-- main thread waiting for exit...
and the program hangs. Presumably the test thread does not wake. On the other
hand, when I compile the same test program on SuSE Linux 7.2 (gcc 2.95.3,
glibc 2.2.2) I get what I consider to be correct results...
michaelb@gilgamesh:~ > ./a.out
-- test thread has signal()ed
-- test thread about to wait()...
-- main thread wakes!
-- main thread about to signal()
-- main thread waiting for exit...
-- test thread wakes!
-- test thread about to exit...
%% PASSED
I've done a lot of staring at my test program, and can't see any problem with
it (though I'm willing to be proved wrong in this, I can stand the shame!),
so I'm thinking that this is a Cygwin bug.
Regards
M.Beach
/*
* foo.cpp
*/
#include <pthread.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
void *condVarTestThreadEntry(void *arg);
struct CondVarTestData
{
pthread_mutex_t m;
pthread_cond_t cv;
enum { START, NEW_THREAD_RUNNING, NEW_THREAD_ACKNOWLEDGED } state;
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
CondVarTestData td;
pthread_mutex_init(&td.m, 0);
pthread_cond_init(&td.cv, 0);
td.state = CondVarTestData::START;
pthread_t th;
pthread_create(&th, 0, condVarTestThreadEntry, &td);
{
pthread_mutex_lock(&td.m);
while (td.state != CondVarTestData::NEW_THREAD_RUNNING)
{
pthread_cond_wait(&td.cv, &td.m);
clog << "-- main thread wakes!" << endl;
}
td.state = CondVarTestData::NEW_THREAD_ACKNOWLEDGED;
clog << "-- main thread about to signal()" << endl;
pthread_cond_signal(&td.cv);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&td.m);
}
clog << "-- main thread waiting for exit..." << endl;
pthread_join(th, 0);
cout << "%% PASSED" << endl;
return 0;
}
void *condVarTestThreadEntry(void *arg)
{
CondVarTestData *td = (CondVarTestData *)arg;
pthread_mutex_lock(&td->m);
td->state = CondVarTestData::NEW_THREAD_RUNNING;
pthread_cond_signal(&td->cv);
clog << "-- test thread has signal()ed" << endl;
while (td->state != CondVarTestData::NEW_THREAD_ACKNOWLEDGED)
{
clog << "-- test thread about to wait()..." << endl;
pthread_cond_wait(&td->cv, &td->m);
clog << "-- test thread wakes!" << endl;
}
pthread_mutex_unlock(&td->m);
clog << "-- test thread about to exit..." << endl;
return 0;
}
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