/* * pthread_cancel.c * * Description: * POSIX thread functions related to thread cancellation. * * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * Pthreads-embedded (PTE) - POSIX Threads Library for embedded systems * Copyright(C) 2008 Jason Schmidlapp * * Contact Email: jschmidlapp@users.sourceforge.net * * * Based upon Pthreads-win32 - POSIX Threads Library for Win32 * Copyright(C) 1998 John E. Bossom * Copyright(C) 1999,2005 Pthreads-win32 contributors * * Contact Email: rpj@callisto.canberra.edu.au * * The original list of contributors to the Pthreads-win32 project * is contained in the file CONTRIBUTORS.ptw32 included with the * source code distribution. The list can also be seen at the * following World Wide Web location: * http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/contributors.html * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library in the file COPYING.LIB; * if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., * 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA */ #include "pthread.h" #include "implement.h" #include int pthread_cancel (pthread_t thread) /* * ------------------------------------------------------ * DOCPUBLIC * This function requests cancellation of 'thread'. * * PARAMETERS * thread * reference to an instance of pthread_t * * * DESCRIPTION * This function requests cancellation of 'thread'. * NOTE: cancellation is asynchronous; use pthread_join to * wait for termination of 'thread' if necessary. * * RESULTS * 0 successfully requested cancellation, * ESRCH no thread found corresponding to 'thread', * ENOMEM implicit self thread create failed. * ------------------------------------------------------ */ { int result; int cancel_self; pthread_t self; pte_thread_t * tp; result = pthread_kill (thread, 0); if (0 != result) { return result; } if ((self = pthread_self ()) == NULL) { return ENOMEM; }; /* * FIXME!! * * Can a thread cancel itself? * * The standard doesn't * specify an error to be returned if the target * thread is itself. * * If it may, then we need to ensure that a thread can't * deadlock itself trying to cancel itself asyncronously * (pthread_cancel is required to be an async-cancel * safe function). */ cancel_self = pthread_equal (thread, self); tp = (pte_thread_t *) thread; /* * Lock for async-cancel safety. */ (void) pthread_mutex_lock (&tp->cancelLock); if (tp->cancelType == PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS && tp->cancelState == PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE && tp->state < PThreadStateCanceling) { if (cancel_self) { tp->state = PThreadStateCanceling; tp->cancelState = PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE; (void) pthread_mutex_unlock (&tp->cancelLock); pte_throw (PTE_EPS_CANCEL); /* Never reached */ } else { /* * We don't support asynchronous cancellation for thread other than ourselves. * as it requires significant platform and OS specific functionality (see below). * * We should never get here, as we don't allow the cancellability type to be * sent to async. * * If you really wanted to implement async cancellation, you would probably need to * do something like the Win32 implement did, which is: * 1. Suspend the target thread. * 2. Replace the PC for the target thread to a routine that throws an exception * or does a longjmp, depending on cleanup method. * 3. Resume the target thread. * * Note that most of the async cancellation code is still in here if anyone * wanted to add the OS/platform specific stuff. */ (void) pthread_mutex_unlock (&tp->cancelLock); result = EPERM; } } else { /* * Set for deferred cancellation. */ if (tp->state < PThreadStateCancelPending) { tp->state = PThreadStateCancelPending; if (pte_osThreadCancel(tp->threadId) != PTE_OS_OK) { result = ESRCH; } } else if (tp->state >= PThreadStateCanceling) { result = ESRCH; } (void) pthread_mutex_unlock (&tp->cancelLock); } return (result); }