Re: [ECOS] POSIX threads in ecos

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Rajeev wrote:
> 
> hi,
>   i'm trying out the posix threads in ecos. i've three threads running a
> simple program.
>   when i dont use the sleep call the threads run happily though not to
> the priorities i've set .
>   but when i use the sleep call the output i get is
> thread1:hello world
> thread2:hello world
> thread3:hello world
> thread1:hello world
> thread2:hello world
> thread3:hello world
>    >>>>and then the system does nothing.
>         i'm using an ARM7 based board and i have configured one of its timers
> for the scheduler to use and i'm using a basic tick of 0.5 secs
> what might be the problem??

What's the program? I should warn you that these multi-threading problems
are non-trivial to track down, and therefore aren't the type of thing I
would find for you (not a paying customer y'see). If I don't see anything
glaringly obvious in the program, you'll just have to debug it I'm afraid.

Jifl
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