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Re: ramfs problems
- From: Peter Graf <p dot graf at itknet dot de>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:27:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ramfs problems
Hi Robin,
>Don't know if it's related but did you apply this fix to fread.cxx?
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2002-02/msg00120.html
This has immediately fixed this ramfs problem!
Thanks a lot for your kind help!!!
What remains is the other problem, that a thread blocked by fgetc() on
serial line causes lockup of fread() access on ramfs by another thread.
I remember an earlier problem that came from the conjunction of
Cyg_StdioStream::refill_read_buffer() and cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but().
The former routine locks the stream and calls cyg_stdio_read() which blocks
on a condition variable, waiting for characters coming from the underlying
device. Then, the other thread calls something that implies
cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but() which spins trying to flush the other
(locked) stream. IIRC fread() implies cyg_libc_stdio_flush_all_but(), so
that would explain it.
Bye, Peter
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