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Re: sscanf() vs. fgetc()
Robin Farine wrote:
>
> The problem comes from the conjunction of Cyg_StdioStream::refill_read_buffer()
> and cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but(). The former routine locks '*this' and calls
> cyg_stdio_read() which finally blocks on a condition variable, waiting for
> characters coming from the underlying device. Then, another thread with a higher
> priority (lower value) calls sscanf() => cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but() which
> spins trying to flush the other (locked) stream and thus does not give the CPU
> back to the lower priority thread in order to unlock the stream (provided the
> stream has some characters to consume).
Hah. I'd just debugged this myself this far. You are entirely correct. It
shouldn't wait at all for a device that's currently reading - nothing needs
to be flushed. So.....
Index: include/stream.hxx
===================================================================
RCS file:
/home/cvs/ecc/ecc/language/c/libc/stdio/current/include/stream.hxx,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -5 -p -r1.4 stream.hxx
--- include/stream.hxx 2001/03/16 09:04:43 1.4
+++ include/stream.hxx 2001/07/12 18:54:31
@@ -62,13 +62,19 @@
#include <cyg/kernel/mutex.hxx> // Cyg_Mutex
#endif
// TYPE DEFINITIONS
+class Cyg_StdioStream;
+__externC Cyg_ErrNo
+cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but( Cyg_StdioStream * );
+
class Cyg_StdioStream
{
friend int setvbuf( FILE *, char *, int, size_t );
+ friend Cyg_ErrNo
+ cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but( Cyg_StdioStream * );
private:
// error status for this file
Cyg_ErrNo error;
Index: src/common/fflush.cxx
===================================================================
RCS file:
/home/cvs/ecc/ecc/language/c/libc/stdio/current/src/common/fflush.cxx,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -5 -p -r1.2 fflush.cxx
--- src/common/fflush.cxx 2000/07/25 14:54:38 1.2
+++ src/common/fflush.cxx 2001/07/12 18:54:31
@@ -84,18 +84,20 @@ cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but( Cyg_StdioS
files_flushed[i] = true;
} // if
else {
// valid stream
-
- if ( stream->trylock_me() ) {
- err = stream->flush_output_unlocked();
- stream->unlock_me();
- files_flushed[i] = true;
- } // if
- else
- loop_again = true;
+ // only buffers which we've written to need flushing
+ if ( !stream->flags.last_buffer_op_was_read) {
+ if ( stream->trylock_me() ) {
+ err = stream->flush_output_unlocked();
+ stream->unlock_me();
+ files_flushed[i] = true;
+ } // if
+ else
+ loop_again = true;
+ }
} // else
} // if
} // for
} // do
while(loop_again && !err);
Jifl
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