Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:33:51 +0200 | | From | "Bart Van Assche" <> | | Subject | Re: Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to suspend execution? |
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com> wrote:
> Andi wrote:
>> Any such mechanism will need a syscall, and it's unlikely that
>> any syscall will get much cheaper than a kill(SIGSTOP)
>
> But is there a way for the process sending the SIGSTOP to wait until it
> has taken effect? I need a method to *synchronously* stop another
> thread. That's why I thought I probably needed something more
> elaborate than SIGSTOP, though I'd like to minimize the number of
> system calls required.
Are you aware that SIGSTOP suspends all the threads in a process
instead of a single thread ? (Note: this is how the NPTL behaves. With
LinuxThreads it was possible to suspend a single thread via SIGSTOP,
but this was a violation of the POSIX standards.)
Bart.
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