How to stop a task in vxworks (simulator)

[Krishna Kumar]

Hi all,

I have a task which is running in a loop. My application will use
ports, allocated memory etc and also have a function which will
close all the ports, free the allocated memory.

My questions is.
How to stop this task gracefully?.(i.e task should exit after freeing
my application's resources. Where i have to call my Free
resources method).

I have tried the following cases but both are not successful for me.

1. td <taskid> - It closes the task obnormallly(i.e exits without
freeing the resources).

2. kill (<taskId, signo). Before that I have implemented signal in my
application using sigInit() and signal() method calls.

Can any one guide me?

Thanks
Krishna kumar.

[Manuel van den Berg]

Hi,

There are IMHO two options:

1. Use a kill and install a signal handler to perform task cleanup.
2. Install a task delete hook (See taskHookLib) and let the hook
perform the cleanup.

Good luck,

Manuel

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[david lindauer]

another method we use for tasks that execute in a while loop, is to put a
boolean variable as the argument to the while loop. Then after the while
loop we put the task clean up stuff. To kill the task, set the boolean.

David