On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 15.10.2010 16:31, schrieb Andrew Brunner: >> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Jonas Maebe<jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> >> wrote: >>> >>> You replaced a bunch of semaphore create/lock/unlock/destroy operations >>> with >>> calls to a function that does not do anything. >> >> I did not. I REMOVED create/destroy/lock/unlock. I ADDED calls to >> the ThreadManager's own functions for thread Resume and Suspend. Did >> you try executing the suspend command? What happened? > > What do you believe happens with a thread when you execute a function that > only returns "dword(-1)" and does nothing else? :) > > Take a look at Jonas code excerpt from "rtl/unix/cthreads.pp" again and > you'll see that the call to "pthread_kill" in CSuspendThread is disabled and > has a big comment before it. > > Regards, > Sven
Now that is funny. I guess I made the assumption that the call the Pthreads Suspend thread would actually do what is advertised, at lease on good faith... Who else has the source to PThreads? Anyone care to read it over? I have it. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
