pthread_kill/pthread_sigmask help
Dan O'Reilly
rather irritating roadblock. The application uses DECthreads, and while
this isn't by itself a major problem, the real problem is that DECthreads
don't support what appear to be 2 fairly common pthread routines:
pthread_kill() and pthread_sigmask().
The Guide to DECthreads manual actually documents them, but they don't
actually exist for VMS, according to the CSC. This means that I need to
get some other analog to them. Does anybody have such a creature, or
know another workaround? I'm pretty disappointed in Compaq about this
one, especially since there's NO PLACE in the manual where it says that
they're unsupported for VMS!
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Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
>I'm working with porting an application to VMS, and have run into a
>rather irritating roadblock. The application uses DECthreads, and while
>this isn't by itself a major problem, the real problem is that DECthreads
>don't support what appear to be 2 fairly common pthread routines:
>pthread_kill() and pthread_sigmask().
>
>The Guide to DECthreads manual actually documents them, but they don't
>actually exist for VMS, according to the CSC. This means that I need to
>get some other analog to them. Does anybody have such a creature, or
>know another workaround? I'm pretty disappointed in Compaq about this
>one, especially since there's NO PLACE in the manual where it says that
>they're unsupported for VMS!
My Guide to DECthread:
pthread_kill
Delivers a signal to a specified target thread.
(and in italicized text) This routine is for Digital UNIX systems only.
pthread_sigmask
Examine or change the calling thread's signal mask.
(and in italicized text) This routine is for Digital UNIX systems only.
You can achieve some of the above with the C signal() (yuch!) and use
of pthread conditions. I'd suggest looking at the code and modifying
its behaviour to make it more VMS-like and cast out the unixisms.
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