rt_task_unblock() POSIX alternative

[Richard Weinberger]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:29 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
> > This interrupts the Linux syscall, yes. Does this also work when the
> > thread blocks on the Xenomai/Cobalt side?
> >
>
> That ::read is a Xenomai syscall, being handled in the end by
> timerfd_read in the core. So, yes.

True that, once again I got tricked by wrapping. :-)

> There were two "tricks" needed: avoid syscall restart (as you already
> noticed) and using __STD (i.e. __real) pthread_kill in order to get a
> normal signal out. Oh, and the flag var should better be volatile, but
> that may still work when lucky.

While we are here, is there a guarantee that rt_task_unblock() can unblock
a thread in every situation?
I have a large Xenomai 2 application on my desk which seems to assumes that.

As far as I understand it, unblocking tasks is best effort.
/me has pthread_mutex_lock() in mind which must not return -EINTR as
required by POSIX.

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Thanks,
//richard