[haiku-development] Re: correct way to acquire_sem_etc()
- From: <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:14:02 +0100
Stephan asked:
> In the ioctl() the result is checked for several possible errors, among
> which is B_INTERRUPTED. All this happens in a while loop and in the
> B_INTERRUPTED case, the thread will simply go back into the loop.
>
> Now I have learned that killing the thread that does the ioctl() will
make
> it busy loop, because B_INTERRUPTED is returned from acquire_sem_etc().
>
> How is this done the correct way?
By considering B_INTERRUPTED as an error and then simply returns from the
ioctl()?
Any signal raised by the caller thread, it will never be because user
pressed Ctrl+S to suspend it...
Philippe.
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